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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] fib: remove a useless synchronize_rcu() call
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 11:55:51 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:43:04 +0200

> 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 7fa7cb7109d07 added anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Applied.