netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: openvswitch: introduce common code for flushing flows

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Date:   Fri, 14 Aug 2020 12:27:47 -0700
From:   Johan Knöös <jknoos@...gle.com>
To:     Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com>
Cc:     Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Gregory Rose <gvrose8192@...il.com>,
        "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@...il.com>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>, dev@...nvswitch.org,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, rcu <rcu@...r.kernel.org>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: openvswitch: introduce common code for flushing flows

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 3:53 PM David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>
> From: xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com
> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 17:56:39 +0800
>
> > From: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com>
> >
> > To avoid some issues, for example RCU usage warning and double free,
> > we should flush the flows under ovs_lock. This patch refactors
> > table_instance_destroy and introduces table_instance_flow_flush
> > which can be invoked by __dp_destroy or ovs_flow_tbl_flush.
> >
> > Fixes: 50b0e61b32ee ("net: openvswitch: fix possible memleak on destroy flow-table")
> > Reported-by: Johan Knöös <jknoos@...gle.com>
> > Reported-at: https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-discuss/2020-August/050489.html
> > Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@...il.com>
>
> Applied, thank you.

Tonghao, does the following change to your commit make sense to be
able to apply it on 5.6.14 (e3ac9117b18596b7363d5b7904ab03a7d782b40c)?

@@ -393,7 +387,7 @@ void ovs_flow_tbl_destroy(struct flow_table *table)

        free_percpu(table->mask_cache);
        kfree_rcu(rcu_dereference_raw(table->mask_array), rcu);
-       table_instance_destroy(table, ti, ufid_ti, false);
+       table_instance_destroy(ti, ufid_ti);
 }