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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-10-09 12:09:04 -0700
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-12-04 10:52:57 -0800
commit4be2b04e43fd3d8164d7aeb1808e47fbeb0c0de0 (patch)
tree9e8b71499388717d4e30499d7e7877086f133a3a /net/ipv4/netfilter
parent08df477434754629303c9e2bfa8d67ecb44f9c20 (diff)
netfilter: Remove now-redundant smp_read_barrier_depends()
READ_ONCE() now implies smp_read_barrier_depends(), which means that the instances in arpt_do_table(), ipt_do_table(), and ip6t_do_table() are now redundant. This commit removes them and adjusts the comments. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu> Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org> Cc: <coreteam@netfilter.org> Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/ipv4/netfilter')
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c7
-rw-r--r--net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c7
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c
index f88221aebc9d..d242c2d29161 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c
@@ -202,13 +202,8 @@ unsigned int arpt_do_table(struct sk_buff *skb,
local_bh_disable();
addend = xt_write_recseq_begin();
- private = table->private;
+ private = READ_ONCE(table->private); /* Address dependency. */
cpu = smp_processor_id();
- /*
- * Ensure we load private-> members after we've fetched the base
- * pointer.
- */
- smp_read_barrier_depends();
table_base = private->entries;
jumpstack = (struct arpt_entry **)private->jumpstack[cpu];
diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
index 4cbe5e80f3bf..46866cc24a84 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
@@ -260,13 +260,8 @@ ipt_do_table(struct sk_buff *skb,
WARN_ON(!(table->valid_hooks & (1 << hook)));
local_bh_disable();
addend = xt_write_recseq_begin();
- private = table->private;
+ private = READ_ONCE(table->private); /* Address dependency. */
cpu = smp_processor_id();
- /*
- * Ensure we load private-> members after we've fetched the base
- * pointer.
- */
- smp_read_barrier_depends();
table_base = private->entries;
jumpstack = (struct ipt_entry **)private->jumpstack[cpu];