netdev - Re: [PATCH] pkt_sched: Destroy gen estimators under rtnl

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Message-Id: <20080822.032733.155458803.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:27:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	jarkao2@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, denys@...p.net.lb
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pkt_sched: Destroy gen estimators under rtnl_lock().

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:07:08 +1000

> Yes the ingress hierachy has a single root, i.e., it's a tree.  But
> that has nothing to do with what I was talking about.  I'm talking
> about the list at dev->rx_queue.qdisc_sleeping->list which is
> certainly not guaranteed to be empty.

It is guarenteed to be empty.

Only root qdiscs go to rx_queue.qdisc_sleeping, and such qdiscs
will always have an empty list.

> If you look at qdisc_create you'll find that every time we create
> a non-root ingress qdisc we add it to that list (we have to,
> otherwise qdisc_lookup doesn't work at all for ingress qdiscs).

We don't allow non-root ingress qdiscs.  All ingress qdiscs
always take the device graft path, and always have a parent
of TC_H_INGRESS, and always operate on rx_queue.

> So when somebody on the TX side does a qdisc_lookup they may be
> walking the RX list without any protection.  Similarly, if somebody
> on the ingress side does qdisc_lookup they may walk the TX lists
> without protection.

Ingress data paths do not do qdisc_lookup().  There is only root
allowed for ingress and thus rx_queue's non-default qdiscs.

Add some assertions and run some test tc commands if you don't believe
me :)
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