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Fix RCU list iterator use of 'rcu_dereference()'
The RCU iterators used 'rcu_dereference()' on an already-fetched RCU pointer value, which defeats the whole point of the exercise. When we dereference a pointer protected by RCU, we need to make sure that we only fetch the value _once_, because if the compiler ends up re-loading it due to register pressure, the newly reloaded value could be different from the previously fetched one, and you get inconsistent results. Cleaned-up, fixed, and the pointless list_for_each_safe_rcu #define deleted by Paul Kenney. Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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