netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next V3 4/4] net/sched: Introduce act_tunnel

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Date:   Tue, 30 Aug 2016 07:27:18 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Amir Vadai <amir@...ai.me>
Cc:     Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Hadar Hen Zion <hadarh@...lanox.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>, Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>,
        Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>,
        Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
        Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
        Amir Vadai <amirva@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V3 4/4] net/sched: Introduce act_tunnel_key

On Tue, 2016-08-30 at 16:17 +0300, Amir Vadai wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 08:05:03AM -0400, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> > 
> > old = rtnl_dereference(mykey->p);
> > if (ovr)
> >     spin_lock_bh(&mykey->tcf_lock);
> Thanks for the detailed example :)
> 
> what are we protecting with this spin lock here? isn't concurrent init()
> calls are protected by the rtnl lock?

Right. RTNL should be enough here for the write exclusion.