netdev - RE: [PATCH net] ipv4: make fib_info

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Date:   Fri, 14 Jan 2022 15:50:52 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Eric Dumazet' <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
CC:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        syzbot <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>,
        Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>,
        "Jiri Pirko" <jiri@...lanox.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net] ipv4: make fib_info_cnt atomic

From: Eric Dumazet
> Sent: 14 January 2022 15:39
> 
> Instead of making sure all free_fib_info() callers
> hold rtnl, it seems better to convert fib_info_cnt
> to an atomic_t.

Since fib_info_cnt is only used to control the size of the hash table
could it be incremented when a fid is added to the hash table and
decremented when it is removed.

This is all inside the fib_info_lock.

	David

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