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Date:	Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:42:54 +0200
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To:	unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@...p.net.lb>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pkt_sched: Destroy gen estimators under rtnl_lock().

Jarek Poplawski wrote, On 08/14/2008 01:24 PM:

> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 03:19:18PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> ...
>> Ok, so what I'm going to do is check in my patch and then try
>> to figure out how to resolve this "both bits clear" scenerio.
> 
> BTW, here is my older doubt revisited, where I hope to be re-considered/
> re-convinced, if possible...


After problems while testing this by Denys in another thread
I withdraw this patch.

Thanks,
Jarek P.


 
> ---------------->
> 
> pkt_sched: Destroy qdiscs under rtnl_lock again.
> 
> We don't need to trigger __qdisc_destroy() as an RCU callback because
> the use of qdisc isn't controlled by RCU alone: after querying RCU
> with synchronize_rcu() in dev_deactivate() we additionaly wait in a
> loop checking some flags. After the loop is done there could be no
> outstanding use of the qdisc, so call_rcu() doesn't make any sense.
> 
> On the other hand, current calling Qdisc's ->destroy() from a softirq
> context without locking (rtnl) can break various things like:
> qdisc_put_rtab(), tcf_destroy_chain() (e.g. u32_destroy()), and
> probably more.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
> 
> ---
> 
>  net/sched/sch_generic.c |    8 ++------
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/sched/sch_generic.c b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
> index 4685746..e7379d2 100644
> --- a/net/sched/sch_generic.c
> +++ b/net/sched/sch_generic.c
> @@ -518,12 +518,8 @@ void qdisc_reset(struct Qdisc *qdisc)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(qdisc_reset);
>  
> -/* this is the rcu callback function to clean up a qdisc when there
> - * are no further references to it */
> -
> -static void __qdisc_destroy(struct rcu_head *head)
> +static void __qdisc_destroy(struct Qdisc *qdisc)
>  {
> -	struct Qdisc *qdisc = container_of(head, struct Qdisc, q_rcu);
>  	const struct Qdisc_ops  *ops = qdisc->ops;
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_NET_SCHED
> @@ -554,7 +550,7 @@ void qdisc_destroy(struct Qdisc *qdisc)
>  	if (qdisc->parent)
>  		list_del(&qdisc->list);
>  
> -	call_rcu(&qdisc->q_rcu, __qdisc_destroy);
> +	__qdisc_destroy(qdisc);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(qdisc_destroy);
>  
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