diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 872510f32e35..a79e13cdfe65 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 6fd9b3a40b82081d9e6490b0d7cd656e9a78a134
+refs/heads/master: 72c6a9870f901045f2464c3dc6ee8914bfdc07aa
diff --git a/trunk/include/linux/rculist.h b/trunk/include/linux/rculist.h
index e649bd3f2c97..5710f43bbc9e 100644
--- a/trunk/include/linux/rculist.h
+++ b/trunk/include/linux/rculist.h
@@ -198,6 +198,32 @@ static inline void list_splice_init_rcu(struct list_head *list,
 	at->prev = last;
 }
 
+/**
+ * list_entry_rcu - get the struct for this entry
+ * @ptr:        the &struct list_head pointer.
+ * @type:       the type of the struct this is embedded in.
+ * @member:     the name of the list_struct within the struct.
+ *
+ * This primitive may safely run concurrently with the _rcu list-mutation
+ * primitives such as list_add_rcu() as long as it's guarded by rcu_read_lock().
+ */
+#define list_entry_rcu(ptr, type, member) \
+	container_of(rcu_dereference(ptr), type, member)
+
+/**
+ * list_first_entry_rcu - get the first element from a list
+ * @ptr:        the list head to take the element from.
+ * @type:       the type of the struct this is embedded in.
+ * @member:     the name of the list_struct within the struct.
+ *
+ * Note, that list is expected to be not empty.
+ *
+ * This primitive may safely run concurrently with the _rcu list-mutation
+ * primitives such as list_add_rcu() as long as it's guarded by rcu_read_lock().
+ */
+#define list_first_entry_rcu(ptr, type, member) \
+	list_entry_rcu((ptr)->next, type, member)
+
 #define __list_for_each_rcu(pos, head) \
 	for (pos = rcu_dereference((head)->next); \
 		pos != (head); \
@@ -214,9 +240,9 @@ static inline void list_splice_init_rcu(struct list_head *list,
  * as long as the traversal is guarded by rcu_read_lock().
  */
 #define list_for_each_entry_rcu(pos, head, member) \
-	for (pos = list_entry(rcu_dereference((head)->next), typeof(*pos), member); \
+	for (pos = list_entry_rcu((head)->next, typeof(*pos), member); \
 		prefetch(pos->member.next), &pos->member != (head); \
-		pos = list_entry(rcu_dereference(pos->member.next), typeof(*pos), member))
+		pos = list_entry_rcu(pos->member.next, typeof(*pos), member))
 
 
 /**