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authorCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>2017-10-27 04:24:28 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-10-29 16:49:30 +0300
commit7aa0045dadb6ef37485ea9f2a7d28278ca588b51 (patch)
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parent8c83c88584abb3a04a4026be91060bc309f4c034 (diff)
downloadlinux-7aa0045dadb6ef37485ea9f2a7d28278ca588b51.tar.xz
net_sched: introduce a workqueue for RCU callbacks of tc filter
This patch introduces a dedicated workqueue for tc filters so that each tc filter's RCU callback could defer their action destroy work to this workqueue. The helper tcf_queue_work() is introduced for them to use. Because we hold RTNL lock when calling tcf_block_put(), we can not simply flush works inside it, therefore we have to defer it again to this workqueue and make sure all flying RCU callbacks have already queued their work before this one, in other words, to ensure this is the last one to execute to prevent any use-after-free. On the other hand, this makes tcf_block_put() ugly and harder to understand. Since David and Eric strongly dislike adding synchronize_rcu(), this is probably the only solution that could make everyone happy. Please also see the code comments below. Reported-by: Chris Mi <chrism@mellanox.com> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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