From: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: "Dae R. Jeong" <threeearcat@gmail.com>,
borisp@nvidia.com, john.fastabend@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net,
edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ywchoi@casys.kaist.ac.kr
Subject: Re: Missing a write memory barrier in tls_init()
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2023 23:45:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZUq-GrWMvbfhX74a@hog> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231106143659.12e0d126@kernel.org>
2023-11-06, 14:36:59 -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 16:11:29 +0900 Dae R. Jeong wrote:
> > In addition, I believe the {tls_setsockopt, tls_getsockopt}
> > implementation is fine because of the address dependency. I think
> > load-load reordering is prohibited in this case so we don't need a
> > read barrier.
>
> Sounds plausible, could you send a patch?
>
> The smb_wmb() would be better placed in tls_init(), IMHO.
Wouldn't it be enough to just move the rcu_assign_pointer after ctx is
fully initialized, ie just before update_sk_prot? also clearer wrt
RCU.
(and maybe get rid of tls_ctx_create and move all that into tls_init,
it's not much and we don't even set ctx->{tx,rx}_conf in there)
--
Sabrina
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-11-07 22:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-02 7:11 Missing a write memory barrier in tls_init() Dae R. Jeong
2023-11-06 22:36 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-07 8:07 ` Dae R. Jeong
2023-11-07 22:45 ` Sabrina Dubroca [this message]
2023-11-08 2:53 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-11-08 9:07 ` Sabrina Dubroca
2023-11-10 10:22 ` Dae R. Jeong
2023-11-10 11:04 ` Dae R. Jeong
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