netdev - RE: [Patch bpf-next v7 04/13] skmsg: avoid lock_sock() in sk_psock

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Date:   Mon, 29 Mar 2021 12:41:39 -0700
From:   John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
To:     Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     bpf@...r.kernel.org, duanxiongchun@...edance.com,
        wangdongdong.6@...edance.com, jiang.wang@...edance.com,
        Cong Wang <cong.wang@...edance.com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@...udflare.com>,
        Lorenz Bauer <lmb@...udflare.com>
Subject: RE: [Patch bpf-next v7 04/13] skmsg: avoid lock_sock() in
 sk_psock_backlog()

Cong Wang wrote:
> From: Cong Wang <cong.wang@...edance.com>
> 
> We do not have to lock the sock to avoid losing sk_socket,
> instead we can purge all the ingress queues when we close
> the socket. Sending or receiving packets after orphaning
> socket makes no sense.
> 
> We do purge these queues when psock refcnt reaches zero but
> here we want to purge them explicitly in sock_map_close().
> There are also some nasty race conditions on testing bit
> SK_PSOCK_TX_ENABLED and queuing/canceling the psock work,
> we can expand psock->ingress_lock a bit to protect them too.
> 
> As noticed by John, we still have to lock the psock->work,
> because the same work item could be running concurrently on
> different CPU's.
> 
> Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
> Cc: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@...udflare.com>
> Cc: Lorenz Bauer <lmb@...udflare.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <cong.wang@...edance.com>
> ---

Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>