netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] rhashtable: Fix remove logic to avoid cross references between buckets

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Date:	Fri, 06 Feb 2015 15:20:18 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	tgraf@...g.ch
Cc:	ying.xue@...driver.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] rhashtable: Fix remove logic to avoid cross
 references between buckets

From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 16:08:43 +0000

> The remove logic properly searched the remaining chain for a matching
> entry with an identical hash but it did this while searching from both
> the old and new table. Instead in order to not leave stale references
> behind we need to:
> 
>  1. When growing and searching from the new table:
>     Search remaining chain for entry with same hash to avoid having
>     the new table directly point to a entry with a different hash.
> 
>  2. When shrinking and searching from the old table:
>     Check if the element after the removed would create a cross
>     reference and avoid it if so.
> 
> These bugs were present from the beginning in nft_hash.
> 
> Also, both insert functions calculated the hash based on the mask of
> the new table. This worked while growing. Wwhile shrinking, the mask
> of the inew table is smaller than the mask of the old table. This lead
> to a bit not being taken into account when selecting the bucket lock
> and thus caused the wrong bucket to be locked eventually.
> 
> Fixes: 7e1e77636e36 ("lib: Resizable, Scalable, Concurrent Hash Table")
> Fixes: 97defe1ecf86 ("rhashtable: Per bucket locks & deferred expansion/shrinking")
> Reported-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>

Applied.
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