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Staging: batman-adv: Add rcu TODO

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Paul E. McKenney informed us that rcu is misused by leaking pointers to
rcu related elements outside read-side protected critical sections.

He also recommended that it should be checked against the rcu checklist.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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* Rework usage of RCU
- don't leak pointers from rcu out of rcu critical area which may
get freed
- check were synchronize_rcu must be used
- go through Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt
* Request a new review
* Process the comments from the review
* Move into mainline proper