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Cong Wang 1697c4bb52 net_sched: carefully handle tcf_block_put()
As pointed out by Jiri, there is still a race condition between
tcf_block_put() and tcf_chain_destroy() in a RCU callback. There
is no way to make it correct without proper locking or synchronization,
because both operate on a shared list.

Locking is hard, because the only lock we can pick here is a spinlock,
however, in tc_dump_tfilter() we iterate this list with a sleeping
function called (tcf_chain_dump()), which makes using a lock to protect
chain_list almost impossible.

Jiri suggested the idea of holding a refcnt before flushing, this works
because it guarantees us there would be no parallel tcf_chain_destroy()
during the loop, therefore the race condition is gone. But we have to
be very careful with proper synchronization with RCU callbacks.

Suggested-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-09-12 20:41:02 -07:00
arch Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-09-09 10:30:07 -07:00
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drivers smsc95xx: Configure pause time to 0xffff when tx flow control enabled 2017-09-12 20:36:30 -07:00
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fs More RDMA work and some op-structure constification from Chuck Lever, 2017-09-09 13:31:49 -07:00
include net_sched: get rid of tcfa_rcu 2017-09-12 20:41:02 -07:00
init init/main.c: extract early boot entropy from the passed cmdline 2017-09-08 18:26:50 -07:00
ipc ipc: optimize semget/shmget/msgget for lots of keys 2017-09-08 18:26:51 -07:00
kernel perf/bpf: fix a clang compilation issue 2017-09-11 14:28:45 -07:00
lib cpumask: make cpumask_next() out-of-line 2017-09-08 18:26:51 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.