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Patrick McHardy authored
Before the RCU change distruction of the qdisc and all inner qdiscs happend immediately and under the rtnl semaphore. This made sure nothing holding the rtnl semaphore could end up with invalid memory. This is not true anymore, inner qdiscs found on dev->qdisc_list can be suddenly destroyed by the RCU callback. nothing can find them until they get destroyed. This also makes semantics sane again, an inner qdiscs should not be user-visible once the containing qdisc has been destroyed. The second part (locking in qdisc_lookup) is not really required, but currently the only purpose of qdisc_tree_lock seems to be to protect dev->qdisc_list, which is also protected by the rtnl. The rtnl is especially relied on for making sure nobody frees a qdisc while it is used in user-context, so qdisc_tree_lock looks unnecessary. I'm currently reviewing all qdisc locking, if this turns out to be right I will remove qdisc_tree_lock entirely in a follow-up patch, but for now I left it in for consistency. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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