netdev - Re: [patch net v2 1/4] net/sched: Change tc_action refcnt and bindcnt to atomic

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Date:   Mon, 16 Oct 2017 10:06:28 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Chris Mi <chrism@...lanox.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Lucas Bates <lucasb@...atatu.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch net v2 1/4] net/sched: Change tc_action refcnt and bindcnt
 to atomic

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 4:18 AM, Chris Mi <chrism@...lanox.com> wrote:
> If many filters share the same action. That action's refcnt and bindcnt
> could be manipulated by many RCU callbacks at the same time. This patch
> makes these operations atomic.

Actually I have been thinking about removing these RCU callbacks,
they are not necessary AFAIK, callers hold RTNL lock so they are
allowed to block. The only drawback is that adding a synchronize_rcu(),
but these are slow paths anyway...

I am not sure, it is arguable anyway, essentially it is:

synchronize_rcu() in slow path vs.  multiple RCU callback races


>
> Fixes commit in pre-git era.
>
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")

This is not true, the action RCU callbacks were introduced
by:

commit c7de2cf053420d63bac85133469c965d4b1083e1
Author: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 9 02:09:23 2010 +0000

    pkt_sched: gen_kill_estimator() rcu fixes


and the filter RCU callbacks were introduced by the
patchset like this one:


commit 1ce87720d456e471de0fbd814dc5d1fe10fc1c44
Author: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
Date:   Fri Sep 12 20:09:16 2014 -0700

    net: sched: make cls_u32 lockless