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authorPaul E. McKenney <[email protected]>2017-01-18 10:53:44 +0000
committerPaul E. McKenney <[email protected]>2017-04-18 18:42:36 +0000
commit5f0d5a3ae7cff0d7fa943c199c3a2e44f23e1fac (patch)
treeb7ba2116923723e193dfe7c633ec10056c6b1b53 /net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
parentLinux 4.11-rc2 (diff)
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mm: Rename SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU
A group of Linux kernel hackers reported chasing a bug that resulted from their assumption that SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU provided an existence guarantee, that is, that no block from such a slab would be reallocated during an RCU read-side critical section. Of course, that is not the case. Instead, SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU only prevents freeing of an entire slab of blocks. However, there is a phrase for this, namely "type safety". This commit therefore renames SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU in order to avoid future instances of this sort of confusion. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]> Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]> Cc: David Rientjes <[email protected]> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]> [ paulmck: Add comments mentioning the old name, as requested by Eric Dumazet, in order to help people familiar with the old name find the new one. ] Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
index 60a5295a7de6..bdbc4327ebee 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
@@ -1919,7 +1919,7 @@ struct proto tcpv6_prot = {
.sysctl_rmem = sysctl_tcp_rmem,
.max_header = MAX_TCP_HEADER,
.obj_size = sizeof(struct tcp6_sock),
- .slab_flags = SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU,
+ .slab_flags = SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU,
.twsk_prot = &tcp6_timewait_sock_ops,
.rsk_prot = &tcp6_request_sock_ops,
.h.hashinfo = &tcp_hashinfo,