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This patch introduces a dedicated workqueue for tc filters so that each tc filter's RCU callback could defer their action destroy work to this workqueue. The helper tcf_queue_work() is introduced for them to use. Because we hold RTNL lock when calling tcf_block_put(), we can not simply flush works inside it, therefore we have to defer it again to this workqueue and make sure all flying RCU callbacks have already queued their work before this one, in other words, to ensure this is the last one to execute to prevent any use-after-free. On the other hand, this makes tcf_block_put() ugly and harder to understand. Since David and Eric strongly dislike adding synchronize_rcu(), this is probably the only solution that could make everyone happy. Please also see the code comments below. Reported-by: Chris Mi <chrism@mellanox.com> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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README
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.