netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net/sched: matchall: Fix configuration race

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Date:   Tue, 24 Jan 2017 13:42:04 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     yotamg@...lanox.com
Cc:     mlxsw@...lanox.com, jiri@...lanox.com, eladr@...lanox.com,
        daniel@...earbox.net, jhs@...atatu.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/sched: matchall: Fix configuration race

From: Yotam Gigi <yotamg@...lanox.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 10:54:27 +0200

> In the current version, the matchall internal state is split into two
> structs: cls_matchall_head and cls_matchall_filter. This makes little
> sense, as matchall instance supports only one filter, and there is no
> situation where one exists and the other does not. In addition, that led
> to some races when filter was deleted while packet was processed.
> 
> Unify that two structs into one, thus simplifying the process of matchall
> creation and deletion. As a result, the new, delete and get callbacks have
> a dummy implementation where all the work is done in destroy and change
> callbacks, as was done in cls_cgroup.
> 
> Fixes: bf3994d2ed31 ("net/sched: introduce Match-all classifier")
> Signed-off-by: Yotam Gigi <yotamg@...lanox.com>
> Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>

This doesn't apply cleanly to the net tree, please respin.