netdev - Re: [v2 PATCH 0/2] rhashtable: rhashtable with duplicate objects

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Message-ID: <1474279330.4469.28.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Mon, 19 Sep 2016 12:02:10 +0200
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
        tom@...bertland.com, Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Subject: Re: [v2 PATCH 0/2] rhashtable: rhashtable with duplicate objects

On Mon, 2016-09-19 at 11:54 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > 
> > The stack trace is useless, but my other annotation showed that the
> > table's nelems *underflowed* to -1, so now the worker will continue
> > to try to grow it forever.
> > 
> 
> And this *was* actually a case of duplication, afaict, since it was
> multiple virtual interfaces on the same device all connecting to the
> same AP.

It seems that __rhashtable_remove_fast_one() should return 0 even in
the case of err==1 for the "skip all the maintenance due to list
deletion"?

--- a/include/linux/rhashtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/rhashtable.h
@@ -1009,7 +1009,7 @@ static inline int __rhashtable_remove_fast_one(
                err = 0;
        }
 
-       return err;
+       return err < 0 ? err : 0;
 }

But that in itself doesn't help.

johannes