Re: [PATCH] lib: fix data race in rhashtable_rehash_one

[Herbert Xu]

Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> What I said is :
> 
> In @head you already have the correct nulls value, from hash table.
> 
> You do not need to recompute this value, and/or test if hash table chain
> is empty.
> 
> If hash bucket is empty, it contains the appropriate NULLS value.
> 
> If you are paranoiac add this debugging check :
> 
> if (rht_is_a_nulls(head))
>    BUG_ON(head != (struct rhash_head *)rht_marker(ht, new_hash));
> 
> 
> Therefore, simply fix the bug and unnecessary code with :

Ack.  I remember seeing this when I was working on it but never
got around to removing this bogosity.

Thanks,
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