netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH v2 2/2] net: sched: cls_u32 changes to knode must appear atomic to readers

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Date:	Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:00:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	john.fastabend@...il.com
Cc:	xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, jhs@...atatu.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v2 2/2] net: sched: cls_u32 changes to knode
 must appear atomic to readers

From: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 21:50:34 -0700

> Changes to the cls_u32 classifier must appear atomic to the
> readers. Before this patch if a change is requested for both
> the exts and ifindex, first the ifindex is updated then the
> exts with tcf_exts_change(). This opens a small window where
> a reader can have a exts chain with an incorrect ifindex. This
> violates the the RCU semantics.
> 
> Here we resolve this by always passing u32_set_parms() a copy
> of the tc_u_knode to work on and then inserting it into the hash
> table after the updates have been successfully applied.
> 
> Tested with the following short script:
 ...
> CC: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> CC: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>

Applied.
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