linux/drivers/net/bonding
dingtianhong be79bd048a bonding: add RCU for bond_3ad_state_machine_handler()
The bond_3ad_state_machine_handler() use the bond lock to protect
the bond slave list and slave port together, but it is not enough,
the bond slave list was link and unlink in RTNL, not bond lock,
so I add RCU to protect the slave list from leaving.

The bond lock is still used here, because when the slave has been
removed from the list by the time the state machine runs, it appears
to be possible for both function to manupulate the same aggregator->lag_ports
by finding the aggregator via two different ports that are both members of
that aggregator (i.e., port A of the agg is being unbound, and port B
of the agg is runing its state machine).

If I remove the bond lock, there are nothing to mutex changes
to aggregator->lag_ports between bond_3ad_state_machine_handler and
bond_3ad_unbind_slave, So the bond lock is the simplest way to protect
aggregator->lag_ports.

There was a lot of function need RCU protect, I have two choice
to make the function in RCU-safe, (1) create new similar functions
and make the bond slave list in RCU. (2) modify the existed functions
and make them in read-side critical section, because the RCU
read-side critical sections may be nested.

I choose (2) because it is no need to create more similar functions.

The nots in the function is still too old, clean up the nots.

Suggested-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-14 01:58:02 -05:00
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bond_3ad.c bonding: add RCU for bond_3ad_state_machine_handler() 2013-12-14 01:58:02 -05:00
bond_3ad.h bonding: fix multiple 3ad mode sysfs race conditions 2013-05-19 23:25:49 -07:00
bond_alb.c bonding: rebuild the lock use for bond_alb_monitor() 2013-12-14 01:58:01 -05:00
bond_alb.h drivers/net/*: Fix FSF address in file headers 2013-12-06 12:37:55 -05:00
bond_debugfs.c bonding: delete migrated IP addresses from the rlb hash table 2012-11-30 12:07:27 -05:00
bond_main.c bonding: add RCU for bond_3ad_state_machine_handler() 2013-12-14 01:58:02 -05:00
bond_netlink.c bonding: add arp_all_targets netlink support 2013-12-14 01:07:32 -05:00
bond_options.c bonding: add arp_all_targets netlink support 2013-12-14 01:07:32 -05:00
bond_procfs.c bonding: don't use bond_next_slave() in bond_info_seq_next() 2013-09-28 15:28:06 -07:00
bond_sysfs.c bonding: add arp_all_targets netlink support 2013-12-14 01:07:32 -05:00
bonding.h bonding: create bond_first_slave_rcu() 2013-12-14 01:58:02 -05:00
Makefile bonding: move mode setting into separate function 2013-10-19 18:58:45 -04:00