netdev - Re: netlink: Disable insertions/removals during rehash

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Date:	Fri, 15 May 2015 13:02:57 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...hat.com>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, tgraf@...g.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: netlink: Disable insertions/removals during rehash

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 13:58:24 +0800

> The current rhashtable rehash code is buggy and can't deal with
> parallel insertions/removals without corrupting the hash table.
> 
> This patch disables it by partially reverting
> c5adde9468b0714a051eac7f9666f23eb10b61f7 ("netlink: eliminate
> nl_sk_hash_lock").
> 
> This patch also removes a bogus socket lock introduced by that
> very same patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Herbert, if you agree with me in the other thread that the lock_sock()
or something like it has to remain, you'll need to respin this.

Thanks.
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