From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Pirko Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/14] net: sched: implement unlocked action init API Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 17:16:41 +0200 Message-ID: <20180514151641.GD1848@nanopsycho> References: <1526308035-12484-1-git-send-email-vladbu@mellanox.com> <1526308035-12484-5-git-send-email-vladbu@mellanox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, jhs@mojatatu.com, xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com, pablo@netfilter.org, kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu, fw@strlen.de, ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, edumazet@google.com, keescook@chromium.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, kliteyn@mellanox.com To: Vlad Buslov Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1526308035-12484-5-git-send-email-vladbu@mellanox.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org Mon, May 14, 2018 at 04:27:05PM CEST, vladbu@mellanox.com wrote: >Add additional 'unlocked' argument to act API init functions. >Argument is true when rtnl lock is not taken and false otherwise. >It is required to implement actions that need to release rtnl lock before >loading kernel module and reacquire if afterwards. > >Signed-off-by: Vlad Buslov [...] >@@ -721,9 +722,11 @@ struct tc_action *tcf_action_init_1(struct net *net, struct tcf_proto *tp, > a_o = tc_lookup_action_n(act_name); > if (a_o == NULL) { > #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES >- rtnl_unlock(); >+ if (!unlocked) >+ rtnl_unlock(); > request_module("act_%s", act_name); >- rtnl_lock(); >+ if (!unlocked) >+ rtnl_lock(); Although I don't like this conditional locking scheme, I see no other way to solve this :/ But I think would be better perhaps to rename "unlocked" to something like "rtnl_held". [...]