From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Cc: Ao Zhou <n05ec@lzu.edu.cn>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
Yifan Wu <yifanwucs@gmail.com>,
Juefei Pu <tomapufckgml@gmail.com>,
Yuan Tan <yuantan098@gmail.com>, Xin Liu <bird@lzu.edu.cn>,
Haoze Xie <royenheart@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 1/1] net: l3mdev: Ignore non-L3 uppers in l3mdev_fib_table_rcu
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 11:02:59 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260407080259.GA760990@shredder> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6cc7bc1-f18b-43d2-a21a-c964466fa882@kernel.org>
On Mon, Apr 06, 2026 at 12:14:15PM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> On 4/6/26 9:48 AM, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> >
> > Don't we have the same problem in l3mdev_l3_rcv() and l3mdev_l3_out()?
> > If so, please check if I missed more places and include them in v3.
> >
> > And I think that the part that I was missing earlier is that we don't
> > have RCU synchronization in the unslaving path, so an RCU reader can
> > either see the original master, NULL or a new master (e.g., bridge
> > instead of the original VRF master).
>
> synchronize_rcu after the unlink (control path) seems like a better,
> more robust option than adding more checks to the datapath.
IMO it would be better to proceed with the original approach and look
into adding RCU synchronization in net-next. The original approach is
more surgical and the pattern of first checking netif_is_l3_master()
already exists in other places.
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2026-04-04 11:52 ` [PATCH net 1/1] net: l3mdev: Ignore non-L3 uppers in l3mdev_fib_table_rcu Ao Zhou
2026-04-05 16:22 ` David Ahern
2026-04-06 10:33 ` Ido Schimmel
2026-04-06 13:28 ` [PATCH net v2 " Ao Zhou
2026-04-06 15:48 ` Ido Schimmel
2026-04-06 18:14 ` David Ahern
2026-04-07 8:02 ` Ido Schimmel [this message]
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