netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] genl: Fix genl dumpit() locking.

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Date:	Thu, 22 Aug 2013 11:10:21 -0700
From:	Pravin Shelar <pshelar@...ira.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] genl: Fix genl dumpit() locking.

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@...solutions.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 10:42 -0700, Pravin Shelar wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Johannes Berg
>> <johannes@...solutions.net> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 20:58 -0700, Pravin B Shelar wrote:
>> >> In case of genl-family with parallel ops off, dumpif() callback
>> >> is expected to run under genl_lock, But commit def3117493eafd9df
>> >> (genl: Allow concurrent genl callbacks.) changed this behaviour
>> >> where only first dumpit() op was called under genl-lock.
>> >> For subsequent dump, only nlk->cb_lock was taken.
>> >> Following patch fixes it by defining locked dumpit() and done()
>> >> callback which takes care of genl-locking.
>> >
>> > As I've commented over in the other thread, I really think this is the
>> > wrong thing to do. It was never the case that dumpit() was actually
>> > locked under genl_lock(), and adding it doesn't really help anyone.
>> >
>> If you look at commit def3117493eafd9df , it removes assignment of
>> cb_mutex to genl_mutex. Thats how genl-dump operation was called under
>> genl_mutex.
>
> By the way - why? This just means that netlink will allocate another
> lock to lock it all, so it's not a very useful change?
>
This replaces global genl-lock with per-socket lock which allows
parallel operation in parallel-genl-families and they are not blocked
due to other unrelated genl-family operations.
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