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Cong Wang 7aa0045dad net_sched: introduce a workqueue for RCU callbacks of tc filter
This patch introduces a dedicated workqueue for tc filters
so that each tc filter's RCU callback could defer their
action destroy work to this workqueue. The helper
tcf_queue_work() is introduced for them to use.

Because we hold RTNL lock when calling tcf_block_put(), we
can not simply flush works inside it, therefore we have to
defer it again to this workqueue and make sure all flying RCU
callbacks have already queued their work before this one, in
other words, to ensure this is the last one to execute to
prevent any use-after-free.

On the other hand, this makes tcf_block_put() ugly and
harder to understand. Since David and Eric strongly dislike
adding synchronize_rcu(), this is probably the only
solution that could make everyone happy.

Please also see the code comments below.

Reported-by: Chris Mi <chrism@mellanox.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-10-29 22:49:30 +09:00
arch Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm 2017-10-20 18:20:17 -04:00
block bio_copy_user_iov(): don't ignore ->iov_offset 2017-10-10 23:55:14 -04:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto Merge commit 'tags/keys-fixes-20171018' into fixes-v4.14-rc5 2017-10-19 12:28:38 +11:00
Documentation doc: Fix RCU's docbook options 2017-10-19 22:26:11 -04:00
drivers tap: reference to KVA of an unloaded module causes kernel panic 2017-10-28 19:17:21 +09:00
firmware firmware: Restore support for built-in firmware 2017-09-16 10:58:48 -07:00
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include net_sched: introduce a workqueue for RCU callbacks of tc filter 2017-10-29 22:49:30 +09:00
init Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 18:54:01 -07:00
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kernel bpf: rename sk_actions to align with bpf infrastructure 2017-10-29 11:18:48 +09:00
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security commoncap: move assignment of fs_ns to avoid null pointer dereference 2017-10-19 13:09:33 +11:00
sound ALSA: hda - Fix incorrect TLV callback check introduced during set_fs() removal 2017-10-18 12:27:00 +02:00
tools bpf: rename sk_actions to align with bpf infrastructure 2017-10-29 11:18:48 +09:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt Revert "KVM: Don't accept obviously wrong gsi values via KVM_IRQFD" 2017-09-19 08:37:17 +02:00
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README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.