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fib: remove a useless synchronize_rcu() call

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fib_nl_delrule() calls synchronize_rcu() for no apparent reason,
while rtnl is held.

I suspect it was done to avoid an atomic_inc_not_zero() in
fib_rules_lookup(), which commit 7fa7cb7109 added anyway.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet 2010-10-13 04:43:04 +00:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 2c1c00040a
commit a0a4a85a15
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net/core/fib_rules.c
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@ -494,7 +494,6 @@ static int fib_nl_delrule(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr* nlh, void *arg)
}
}
synchronize_rcu();
notify_rule_change(RTM_DELRULE, rule, ops, nlh,
NETLINK_CB(skb).pid);
fib_rule_put(rule);