netdev - Re: [Linux-ATM-General] RX/close vcc race with solos/atmtcp/usbatm/he

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Date:	Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:10:06 -0400
From:	"Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR)" <chas@....nrl.navy.mil>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
cc:	linux-atm-general@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ATM-General] RX/close vcc race with solos/atmtcp/usbatm/he

In message <1275920035.17903.4998.camel@...book.infradead.org>,David Woodhouse 
writes:
>On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 09:44 -0400, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) wrote:
>> vcc's are really sockets, so you could just increase the refcount --
>> sock_hold().
>
>There are rules about where we're allowed to call sock_hold(), and I
>don't think our find_vcc() functions can be made to meet them.

if you are using find_vcc() then you should already have a lock on the
hash table for the vccs.  you can safely increment the ref count at
this point.

>In that case I think we might as well stick with the RCU-like solution I
>already implemented in the vcc close function -- which is just to wait
>for the tasklet to complete, thus ensuring that it's no longer using the
>defunct vcc.

the driver shouldnt close the vcc while the tasklet is running and
using the vcc in question.  i guess the safest thing is to simply
do as you are doing and not close while running the tasklet.
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