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Commit f16a4b26 authored by Bjorn Andersson's avatar Bjorn Andersson Committed by David S. Miller
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net: qrtr: Make qrtr_port_lookup() use RCU



The important part of qrtr_port_lookup() wrt synchronization is that the
function returns a reference counted struct qrtr_sock, or fail.

As such we need only to ensure that an decrement of the object's
refcount happens inbetween the finding of the object in the idr and
qrtr_port_lookup()'s own increment of the object.

By using RCU and putting a synchronization point after we remove the
mapping from the idr, but before it can be released we achieve this -
with the benefit of not having to hold the mutex in qrtr_port_lookup().

Signed-off-by: default avatarBjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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