[PATCH mptcp-net v3 2/3] mptcp: pm: lockless list traversal to dump endpoints

Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) posted 3 patches 2 weeks, 2 days ago
[PATCH mptcp-net v3 2/3] mptcp: pm: lockless list traversal to dump endpoints
Posted by Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) 2 weeks, 2 days ago
To return an endpoint to the userspace via Netlink, and to dump all of
them, the endpoint list was iterated while holding the pernet->lock, but
only to read the content of the list.

In these cases, the spin locks can be replaced by RCU read ones, and use
the _rcu variants to iterate over the entries list in a lockless way.

Note that the __lookup_addr_by_id() helper has been modified to use the
_rcu variants of list_for_each_entry(), but with an extra conditions, so
it can be called either while the RCU read lock is held, or when the
associated pernet->lock is held.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org>
---
Notes:
 - This is not a fix, a small improvement for -next.
 - v3:
   - Use list_for_each_entry_rcu() with lockdep_is_held() instead of
     duplicating the helper. So no need to rename the helper with _rcu
     suffix.
   - No copy of the bitmap in dump_addr() (Mat)
   - No need to modify set flags. (Paolo)
---
 net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c b/net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c
index 758a0dbfcf78e545d840c0b580c0b12bd042d7a4..2b005ddfd2d365b66abf42065289d74630e604f6 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/pm_netlink.c
@@ -512,7 +512,8 @@ __lookup_addr_by_id(struct pm_nl_pernet *pernet, unsigned int id)
 {
 	struct mptcp_pm_addr_entry *entry;
 
-	list_for_each_entry(entry, &pernet->local_addr_list, list) {
+	list_for_each_entry_rcu(entry, &pernet->local_addr_list, list,
+				lockdep_is_held(&pernet->lock)) {
 		if (entry->addr.id == id)
 			return entry;
 	}
@@ -1824,7 +1825,7 @@ int mptcp_pm_nl_get_addr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 		goto fail;
 	}
 
-	spin_lock_bh(&pernet->lock);
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	entry = __lookup_addr_by_id(pernet, addr.addr.id);
 	if (!entry) {
 		GENL_SET_ERR_MSG(info, "address not found");
@@ -1838,11 +1839,11 @@ int mptcp_pm_nl_get_addr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 
 	genlmsg_end(msg, reply);
 	ret = genlmsg_reply(msg, info);
-	spin_unlock_bh(&pernet->lock);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 	return ret;
 
 unlock_fail:
-	spin_unlock_bh(&pernet->lock);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 fail:
 	nlmsg_free(msg);
@@ -1866,7 +1867,7 @@ int mptcp_pm_nl_dump_addr(struct sk_buff *msg,
 
 	pernet = pm_nl_get_pernet(net);
 
-	spin_lock_bh(&pernet->lock);
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	for (i = id; i < MPTCP_PM_MAX_ADDR_ID + 1; i++) {
 		if (test_bit(i, pernet->id_bitmap)) {
 			entry = __lookup_addr_by_id(pernet, i);
@@ -1891,7 +1892,7 @@ int mptcp_pm_nl_dump_addr(struct sk_buff *msg,
 			genlmsg_end(msg, hdr);
 		}
 	}
-	spin_unlock_bh(&pernet->lock);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	cb->args[0] = id;
 	return msg->len;

-- 
2.45.2