From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jiri Pirko Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/14] net: sched: use reference counting action init Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 13:24:04 +0200 Message-ID: <20180515112404.GL2134@nanopsycho.orion> References: <1526308035-12484-1-git-send-email-vladbu@mellanox.com> <1526308035-12484-8-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: <1526308035-12484-8-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 04:27:08PM CEST, vladbu@mellanox.com wrote: >Change action API to assume that action init function always takes >reference to action, even when overwriting existing action. This is >necessary because action API continues to use action pointer after init >function is done. At this point action becomes accessible for concurrent >modifications so user must always hold reference to it. > >Implement helper put list function to atomically release list of actions >after action API init code is done using them. > >Signed-off-by: Vlad Buslov >--- > net/sched/act_api.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++--------------------- > 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) > [...] >@@ -1196,8 +1190,7 @@ tca_action_gd(struct net *net, struct nlattr *nla, struct nlmsghdr *n, > return ret; > } > err: >- if (event != RTM_GETACTION) Howcome you do this for RTM_GETACTION now too? Where is the related "get"? >- tcf_action_destroy(&actions, 0); >+ tcf_action_put_lst(&actions); > return ret; > } > [...]