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net: force a reload of first item in hlist_nulls_for_each_entry_rcu
Roman Gushchin discovered that udp4_lib_lookup2() was not reloading first item in the rcu protected list, in case the loop was restarted. This produced soft lockups as in https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/16/37 rcu_dereference(X)/ACCESS_ONCE(X) seem to not work as intended if X is ptr->field : In some cases, gcc caches the value or ptr->field in a register. Use a barrier() to disallow such caching, as documented in Documentation/atomic_ops.txt line 114 Thanks a lot to Roman for providing analysis and numerous patches. Diagnosed-by: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> Reported-by: Boris Zhmurov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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