netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] rhashtable: Fix race between rehashing and readers

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Date:	Fri, 13 Mar 2015 08:50:02 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] rhashtable: Fix race between rehashing and
 readers

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 04:33:48PM +0000, Thomas Graf wrote:
> Rehashing can occur in parallel to readers. Readers are aware of this
> situation so new readers are allowed while the rehashing is in
> process. Existing readers may have already fetched the tbl and
> future_tbl and may thus assume no rehashing is in progress. The
> rehashing must thus wait for all existing readers to complete after
> publihsing the future_tbl to make sure all parallel readers see the
> table before we start moving entries.
> 
> Fixes: aa34a6cb0478 ("rhashtable: Add arbitrary rehash function")
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
> ---
> Herbert: This is what I think is needed to fix this properly.

Nack.  Please see my previous email.
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