Staging: batman-adv: Add rcu TODO · tjh.dev/kernel@368b4f0

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Staging: batman-adv: Add rcu TODO

Paul E. McKenney informed us that rcu is misused by leaking pointers to
rcu related elements outside read-side protected critical sections.

He also recommended that it should be checked against the rcu checklist.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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Sven Eckelmann and committed by

Greg Kroah-Hartman 15 years ago 368b4f06 f73d8b43

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drivers/staging/batman-adv/TODO

··· 1 + * Rework usage of RCU 2 + - don't leak pointers from rcu out of rcu critical area which may 3 + get freed 4 + - check were synchronize_rcu must be used 5 + - go through Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt 1 6 * Request a new review 2 7 * Process the comments from the review 3 8 * Move into mainline proper