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

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Date:	Sat, 16 May 2015 17:10:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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: Sat, 16 May 2015 21:16:28 +0800

> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 01:02:57PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Actually I think this one is OK because I'm replacing it with the
> hash table mutex which is just like the previous global lock except
> that it is per-family.  As you cannot change the family on a netlink
> socket this should be good enough.
> 
> But the changelog message is wrong so here is an updated version.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> ---8<---
> 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").
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Ok, I've queued this up for -stable, thanks Herbert.
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