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net: force a reload of first item in hlist_nulls_for_each_entry_rcu

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Roman Gushchin discovered that udp4_lib_lookup2() was not reloading
first item in the rcu protected list, in case the loop was restarted.

This produced soft lockups as in https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/16/37

rcu_dereference(X)/ACCESS_ONCE(X) seem to not work as intended if X is
ptr->field :

In some cases, gcc caches the value or ptr->field in a register.

Use a barrier() to disallow such caching, as documented in
Documentation/atomic_ops.txt line 114

Thanks a lot to Roman for providing analysis and numerous patches.

Diagnosed-by: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Boris Zhmurov <zhmurov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet 2013-05-29 09:06:27 +00:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent c802db1164
commit c87a124a5d
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include/linux/rculist_nulls.h
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@ -105,9 +105,14 @@ static inline void hlist_nulls_add_head_rcu(struct hlist_nulls_node *n,
* @head: the head for your list.
* @member: the name of the hlist_nulls_node within the struct.
*
* The barrier() is needed to make sure compiler doesn't cache first element [1],
* as this loop can be restarted [2]
* [1] Documentation/atomic_ops.txt around line 114
* [2] Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt around line 146
*/
#define hlist_nulls_for_each_entry_rcu(tpos, pos, head, member) \
for (pos = rcu_dereference_raw(hlist_nulls_first_rcu(head)); \
for (({barrier();}), \
pos = rcu_dereference_raw(hlist_nulls_first_rcu(head)); \
(!is_a_nulls(pos)) && \
({ tpos = hlist_nulls_entry(pos, typeof(*tpos), member); 1; }); \
pos = rcu_dereference_raw(hlist_nulls_next_rcu(pos)))