netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] vxlan: synchronously and race-free destruction of vxlan sockets

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Date:	Sat, 16 Apr 2016 18:23:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com, jbenc@...hat.com,
	marcelo.leitner@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] vxlan: synchronously and race-free
 destruction of vxlan sockets

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Fri,  8 Apr 2016 22:55:01 +0200

> Due to the fact that the udp socket is destructed asynchronously in a
> work queue, we have some nondeterministic behavior during shutdown of
> vxlan tunnels and creating new ones. Fix this by keeping the destruction
> process synchronous in regards to the user space process so IFF_UP can
> be reliably set.
> 
> udp_tunnel_sock_release destroys vs->sock->sk if reference counter
> indicates so. We expect to have the same lifetime of vxlan_sock and
> vxlan_sock->sock->sk even in fast paths with only rcu locks held. So
> only destruct the whole socket after we can be sure it cannot be found
> by searching vxlan_net->sock_list.
> 
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Cc: Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>
> Cc: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>

Applied.