From ed86308f6179d8fa6151c2d0f652aad0091548e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick McHardy Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 16:42:15 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: remove invalid rcu_dereference() calls The CONFIG_PROVE_RCU option discovered a few invalid uses of rcu_dereference() in netfilter. In all these cases, the code code intends to check whether a pointer is already assigned when performing registration or whether the assigned pointer matches when performing unregistration. The entire registration/ unregistration is protected by a mutex, so we don't need the rcu_dereference() calls. Reported-by: Valdis Kletnieks Tested-by: Valdis Kletnieks Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy --- Reading git-format-patch failed