netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net/sched: act_mirred: Implement ingress actions

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Date:   Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:42:08 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Shmulik Ladkani <shmulik.ladkani@...il.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] net/sched: act_mirred: Implement ingress
 actions

On Thu, 2016-09-22 at 21:27 +0300, Shmulik Ladkani wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 07:54:13 -0700 Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> > Hmm... we probably need to apply the full rcu protection before this
> > patch.
> > 
> > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/667680/
> 
> Are you referring to order of application into net-next?
> 
> This patch seems to present no new tcf_mirred_params members nor
> need-to-be-protected code regions (please, correct me if wrong).
> So it does not _depend_ on the 'full rcu fixes', does it?

No, simply a reminder that we run lockless there, so you might need to
read some control variables once, and in a consistent way.

(Or a concurrent writer could change params in the middle of the
function)