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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-12-04 11:33:02 -0500
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2017-12-04 11:33:02 -0500
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Merge branch 'rtnetlink-rework-handler-registration'
Florian Westphal says: ==================== rtnetlink: rework handler (un)registering Peter Zijlstra reported (referring to commit 019a316992ee0d983, "rtnetlink: add reference counting to prevent module unload while dump is in progress"): 1) it not in fact a refcount, so using refcount_t is silly 2) there is a distinct lack of memory barriers, so we can easily observe the decrement while the msg_handler is still in progress. 3) waiting with a schedule()/yield() loop is complete crap and subject life-locks, imagine doing that rtnl_unregister_all() from a RT task. In ancient times rtnetlink exposed a statically-sized table with preset doit/dumpit handlers to be called for a protocol/type pair. Later the rtnl_register interface was added and the table was allocated on demand. Eventually these were also used by modules. Problem is that nothing prevents module unload while a netlink dump is in progress. netlink dumps can be span multiple recv calls and netlink core saves the to-be-repeated dumper address for later invocation. To prevent rmmod the netlink core expects callers to pass in the owning module so a reference can be taken. So far rtnetlink wasn't doing this, add new interface to pass THIS_MODULE. Moreover, when converting parts of the rtnetlink handling to rcu this code gained way too many READ_ONCE spots, remove them and the extra refcounting. Take a module reference when running dumpit and doit callbacks and never alter content of rtnl_link structures after they have been published via rcu_assign_pointer. Based partially on earlier patch from Peter. ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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