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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2009-07-10 09:51:33 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-07-12 14:03:25 -0700
commit11a28d373ed2539a110d56419457e2e7db221ac7 (patch)
treed1460cb057299c89ff34b20821e30c8bfc7e589a /net
parent6c04bb18ddd633b7feac2c8fe2ae0bf61d20ca7a (diff)
net: make namespace iteration possible under RCU
All we need to take care of is using proper RCU list add/del primitives and inserting a synchronize_rcu() at one place to make sure the exit notifiers are run after everybody has stopped iterating the list. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/core/net_namespace.c14
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/net_namespace.c b/net/core/net_namespace.c
index b7292a2719d..5cd0b22e649 100644
--- a/net/core/net_namespace.c
+++ b/net/core/net_namespace.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/idr.h>
+#include <linux/rculist.h>
#include <net/net_namespace.h>
#include <net/netns/generic.h>
@@ -127,7 +128,7 @@ static struct net *net_create(void)
rv = setup_net(net);
if (rv == 0) {
rtnl_lock();
- list_add_tail(&net->list, &net_namespace_list);
+ list_add_tail_rcu(&net->list, &net_namespace_list);
rtnl_unlock();
}
mutex_unlock(&net_mutex);
@@ -156,9 +157,16 @@ static void cleanup_net(struct work_struct *work)
/* Don't let anyone else find us. */
rtnl_lock();
- list_del(&net->list);
+ list_del_rcu(&net->list);
rtnl_unlock();
+ /*
+ * Another CPU might be rcu-iterating the list, wait for it.
+ * This needs to be before calling the exit() notifiers, so
+ * the rcu_barrier() below isn't sufficient alone.
+ */
+ synchronize_rcu();
+
/* Run all of the network namespace exit methods */
list_for_each_entry_reverse(ops, &pernet_list, list) {
if (ops->exit)
@@ -219,7 +227,7 @@ static int __init net_ns_init(void)
panic("Could not setup the initial network namespace");
rtnl_lock();
- list_add_tail(&init_net.list, &net_namespace_list);
+ list_add_tail_rcu(&init_net.list, &net_namespace_list);
rtnl_unlock();
mutex_unlock(&net_mutex);