[PATCH] Allow raw_notifier callouts to unregister themselves

Since raw_notifier chains don't benefit from any centralized locking
protections, they shouldn't suffer from the associated limitations.  Under
some circumstances it might make sense for a raw_notifier callout routine
to unregister itself from the notifier chain.  This patch (as678) changes
the notifier core to allow for such things.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 90930b2..7e0927b 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -137,14 +137,15 @@ static int __kprobes notifier_call_chain(struct notifier_block **nl,
                unsigned long val, void *v)
 {
        int ret = NOTIFY_DONE;
-       struct notifier_block *nb;
+       struct notifier_block *nb, *next_nb;
 
        nb = rcu_dereference(*nl);
        while (nb) {
+               next_nb = rcu_dereference(nb->next);
                ret = nb->notifier_call(nb, val, v);
                if ((ret & NOTIFY_STOP_MASK) == NOTIFY_STOP_MASK)
                        break;
-               nb = rcu_dereference(nb->next);
+               nb = next_nb;
        }
        return ret;
 }