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2020-05-15rcu: Use WRITE_ONCE() for assignments to ->pprev for hlist_nullsPaul E. McKenney
commit 860c8802ace14c646864795e057349c9fb2d60ad upstream. Eric Dumazet supplied a KCSAN report of a bug that forces use of hlist_unhashed_lockless() from sk_unhashed(): ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BUG: KCSAN: data-race in inet_unhash / inet_unhash write to 0xffff8880a69a0170 of 8 bytes by interrupt on cpu 1: __hlist_nulls_del include/linux/list_nulls.h:88 [inline] hlist_nulls_del_init_rcu include/linux/rculist_nulls.h:36 [inline] __sk_nulls_del_node_init_rcu include/net/sock.h:676 [inline] inet_unhash+0x38f/0x4a0 net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c:612 tcp_set_state+0xfa/0x3e0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:2249 tcp_done+0x93/0x1e0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:3854 tcp_write_err+0x7e/0xc0 net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c:56 tcp_retransmit_timer+0x9b8/0x16d0 net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c:479 tcp_write_timer_handler+0x42d/0x510 net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c:599 tcp_write_timer+0xd1/0xf0 net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c:619 call_timer_fn+0x5f/0x2f0 kernel/time/timer.c:1404 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1449 [inline] __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1773 [inline] __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1740 [inline] run_timer_softirq+0xc0c/0xcd0 kernel/time/timer.c:1786 __do_softirq+0x115/0x33f kernel/softirq.c:292 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:373 [inline] irq_exit+0xbb/0xe0 kernel/softirq.c:413 exiting_irq arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h:536 [inline] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0xe6/0x280 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1137 apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:830 native_safe_halt+0xe/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:71 arch_cpu_idle+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:571 default_idle_call+0x1e/0x40 kernel/sched/idle.c:94 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:154 [inline] do_idle+0x1af/0x280 kernel/sched/idle.c:263 cpu_startup_entry+0x1b/0x20 kernel/sched/idle.c:355 start_secondary+0x208/0x260 arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c:264 secondary_startup_64+0xa4/0xb0 arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S:241 read to 0xffff8880a69a0170 of 8 bytes by interrupt on cpu 0: sk_unhashed include/net/sock.h:607 [inline] inet_unhash+0x3d/0x4a0 net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c:592 tcp_set_state+0xfa/0x3e0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:2249 tcp_done+0x93/0x1e0 net/ipv4/tcp.c:3854 tcp_write_err+0x7e/0xc0 net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c:56 tcp_retransmit_timer+0x9b8/0x16d0 net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c:479 tcp_write_timer_handler+0x42d/0x510 net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c:599 tcp_write_timer+0xd1/0xf0 net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c:619 call_timer_fn+0x5f/0x2f0 kernel/time/timer.c:1404 expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1449 [inline] __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1773 [inline] __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1740 [inline] run_timer_softirq+0xc0c/0xcd0 kernel/time/timer.c:1786 __do_softirq+0x115/0x33f kernel/softirq.c:292 invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:373 [inline] irq_exit+0xbb/0xe0 kernel/softirq.c:413 exiting_irq arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h:536 [inline] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0xe6/0x280 arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic.c:1137 apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:830 native_safe_halt+0xe/0x10 arch/x86/kernel/paravirt.c:71 arch_cpu_idle+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:571 default_idle_call+0x1e/0x40 kernel/sched/idle.c:94 cpuidle_idle_call kernel/sched/idle.c:154 [inline] do_idle+0x1af/0x280 kernel/sched/idle.c:263 cpu_startup_entry+0x1b/0x20 kernel/sched/idle.c:355 rest_init+0xec/0xf6 init/main.c:452 arch_call_rest_init+0x17/0x37 start_kernel+0x838/0x85e init/main.c:786 x86_64_start_reservations+0x29/0x2b arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:490 x86_64_start_kernel+0x72/0x76 arch/x86/kernel/head64.c:471 secondary_startup_64+0xa4/0xb0 arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S:241 Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on: CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.4.0-rc6+ #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This commit therefore replaces C-language assignments with WRITE_ONCE() in include/linux/list_nulls.h and include/linux/rculist_nulls.h. Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> # For KCSAN Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2020-03-07tcp/dccp: fix possible race __inet_lookup_established()Eric Dumazet
commit 8dbd76e79a16b45b2ccb01d2f2e08dbf64e71e40 upstream. Michal Kubecek and Firo Yang did a very nice analysis of crashes happening in __inet_lookup_established(). Since a TCP socket can go from TCP_ESTABLISH to TCP_LISTEN (via a close()/socket()/listen() cycle) without a RCU grace period, I should not have changed listeners linkage in their hash table. They must use the nulls protocol (Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt), so that a lookup can detect a socket in a hash list was moved in another one. Since we added code in commit d296ba60d8e2 ("soreuseport: Resolve merge conflict for v4/v6 ordering fix"), we have to add hlist_nulls_add_tail_rcu() helper. Fixes: 3b24d854cb35 ("tcp/dccp: do not touch listener sk_refcnt under synflood") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reported-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz> Reported-by: Firo Yang <firo.yang@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20191120083919.GH27852@unicorn.suse.cz/ Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2018-06-15docs: Fix some broken referencesMauro Carvalho Chehab
As we move stuff around, some doc references are broken. Fix some of them via this script: ./scripts/documentation-file-ref-check --fix Manually checked if the produced result is valid, removing a few false-positives. Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> Acked-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Acked-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-05net: remove hlist_nulls_add_tail_rcu()Eric Dumazet
Alexander Potapenko reported use of uninitialized memory [1] This happens when inserting a request socket into TCP ehash, in __sk_nulls_add_node_rcu(), since sk_reuseport is not initialized. Bug was added by commit d894ba18d4e4 ("soreuseport: fix ordering for mixed v4/v6 sockets") Note that d296ba60d8e2 ("soreuseport: Resolve merge conflict for v4/v6 ordering fix") missed the opportunity to get rid of hlist_nulls_add_tail_rcu() : Both UDP sockets and TCP/DCCP listeners no longer use __sk_nulls_add_node_rcu() for their hash insertion. Since all other sockets have unique 4-tuple, the reuseport status has no special meaning, so we can always use hlist_nulls_add_head_rcu() for them and save few cycles/instructions. [1] ================================================================== BUG: KMSAN: use of uninitialized memory in inet_ehash_insert+0xd40/0x1050 CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.13.0+ #3288 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 Call Trace:  <IRQ>  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:16  dump_stack+0x185/0x1d0 lib/dump_stack.c:52  kmsan_report+0x13f/0x1c0 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:1016  __msan_warning_32+0x69/0xb0 mm/kmsan/kmsan_instr.c:766  __sk_nulls_add_node_rcu ./include/net/sock.h:684  inet_ehash_insert+0xd40/0x1050 net/ipv4/inet_hashtables.c:413  reqsk_queue_hash_req net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c:754  inet_csk_reqsk_queue_hash_add+0x1cc/0x300 net/ipv4/inet_connection_sock.c:765  tcp_conn_request+0x31e7/0x36f0 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:6414  tcp_v4_conn_request+0x16d/0x220 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:1314  tcp_rcv_state_process+0x42a/0x7210 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c:5917  tcp_v4_do_rcv+0xa6a/0xcd0 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:1483  tcp_v4_rcv+0x3de0/0x4ab0 net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c:1763  ip_local_deliver_finish+0x6bb/0xcb0 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:216  NF_HOOK ./include/linux/netfilter.h:248  ip_local_deliver+0x3fa/0x480 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:257  dst_input ./include/net/dst.h:477  ip_rcv_finish+0x6fb/0x1540 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:397  NF_HOOK ./include/linux/netfilter.h:248  ip_rcv+0x10f6/0x15c0 net/ipv4/ip_input.c:488  __netif_receive_skb_core+0x36f6/0x3f60 net/core/dev.c:4298  __netif_receive_skb net/core/dev.c:4336  netif_receive_skb_internal+0x63c/0x19c0 net/core/dev.c:4497  napi_skb_finish net/core/dev.c:4858  napi_gro_receive+0x629/0xa50 net/core/dev.c:4889  e1000_receive_skb drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c:4018  e1000_clean_rx_irq+0x1492/0x1d30 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c:4474  e1000_clean+0x43aa/0x5970 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c:3819  napi_poll net/core/dev.c:5500  net_rx_action+0x73c/0x1820 net/core/dev.c:5566  __do_softirq+0x4b4/0x8dd kernel/softirq.c:284  invoke_softirq kernel/softirq.c:364  irq_exit+0x203/0x240 kernel/softirq.c:405  exiting_irq+0xe/0x10 ./arch/x86/include/asm/apic.h:638  do_IRQ+0x15e/0x1a0 arch/x86/kernel/irq.c:263  common_interrupt+0x86/0x86 Fixes: d894ba18d4e4 ("soreuseport: fix ordering for mixed v4/v6 sockets") Fixes: d296ba60d8e2 ("soreuseport: Resolve merge conflict for v4/v6 ordering fix") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Acked-by: Craig Gallek <kraig@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-03-09bpf: convert htab map to hlist_nullsAlexei Starovoitov
when all map elements are pre-allocated one cpu can delete and reuse htab_elem while another cpu is still walking the hlist. In such case the lookup may miss the element. Convert hlist to hlist_nulls to avoid such scenario. When bucket lock is taken there is no need to take such precautions, so only convert map_lookup and map_get_next to nulls. The race window is extremely small and only reproducible with explicit udelay() inside lookup_nulls_elem_raw() Similar to hlist add hlist_nulls_for_each_entry_safe() and hlist_nulls_entry_safe() helpers. Fixes: 6c9059817432 ("bpf: pre-allocate hash map elements") Reported-by: Jonathan Perry <jonperry@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-04-14soreuseport: fix ordering for mixed v4/v6 socketsCraig Gallek
With the SO_REUSEPORT socket option, it is possible to create sockets in the AF_INET and AF_INET6 domains which are bound to the same IPv4 address. This is only possible with SO_REUSEPORT and when not using IPV6_V6ONLY on the AF_INET6 sockets. Prior to the commits referenced below, an incoming IPv4 packet would always be routed to a socket of type AF_INET when this mixed-mode was used. After those changes, the same packet would be routed to the most recently bound socket (if this happened to be an AF_INET6 socket, it would have an IPv4 mapped IPv6 address). The change in behavior occurred because the recent SO_REUSEPORT optimizations short-circuit the socket scoring logic as soon as they find a match. They did not take into account the scoring logic that favors AF_INET sockets over AF_INET6 sockets in the event of a tie. To fix this problem, this patch changes the insertion order of AF_INET and AF_INET6 addresses in the TCP and UDP socket lists when the sockets have SO_REUSEPORT set. AF_INET sockets will be inserted at the head of the list and AF_INET6 sockets with SO_REUSEPORT set will always be inserted at the tail of the list. This will force AF_INET sockets to always be considered first. Fixes: e32ea7e74727 ("soreuseport: fast reuseport UDP socket selection") Fixes: 125e80b88687 ("soreuseport: fast reuseport TCP socket selection") Reported-by: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@google.com> Signed-off-by: Craig Gallek <kraig@google.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-02net: force a reload of first item in hlist_nulls_for_each_entry_rcuEric Dumazet
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>
2010-08-19rculist: avoid __rcu annotationsArnd Bergmann
This avoids warnings from missing __rcu annotations in the rculist implementation, making it possible to use the same lists in both RCU and non-RCU cases. We can add rculist annotations later, together with lockdep support for rculist, which is missing as well, but that may involve changing all the users. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2010-02-25rcu: Disable lockdep checking in RCU list-traversal primitivesPaul E. McKenney
The theory is that use of bare rcu_dereference() is more prone to error than use of the RCU list-traversal primitives. Therefore, disable lockdep RCU read-side critical-section checking in these primitives for the time being. Once all of the rcu_dereference() uses have been dealt with, it may be time to re-enable lockdep checking for the RCU list-traversal primitives. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-4-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-19rcu: Fix whitespace inconsistenciesPaul E. McKenney
Fix a number of whitespace ^Ierrors in the include/linux/rcu* and the kernel/rcu* files. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu LKML-Reference: <20090918172819.GA24405@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ did more checkpatch fixlets ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-16rcu: Introduce hlist_nulls variant of hlistEric Dumazet
hlist uses NULL value to finish a chain. hlist_nulls variant use the low order bit set to 1 to signal an end-of-list marker. This allows to store many different end markers, so that some RCU lockless algos (used in TCP/UDP stack for example) can save some memory barriers in fast paths. Two new files are added : include/linux/list_nulls.h - mimics hlist part of include/linux/list.h, derived to hlist_nulls variant include/linux/rculist_nulls.h - mimics hlist part of include/linux/rculist.h, derived to hlist_nulls variant Only four helpers are declared for the moment : hlist_nulls_del_init_rcu(), hlist_nulls_del_rcu(), hlist_nulls_add_head_rcu() and hlist_nulls_for_each_entry_rcu() prefetches() were removed, since an end of list is not anymore NULL value. prefetches() could trigger useless (and possibly dangerous) memory transactions. Example of use (extracted from __udp4_lib_lookup()) struct sock *sk, *result; struct hlist_nulls_node *node; unsigned short hnum = ntohs(dport); unsigned int hash = udp_hashfn(net, hnum); struct udp_hslot *hslot = &udptable->hash[hash]; int score, badness; rcu_read_lock(); begin: result = NULL; badness = -1; sk_nulls_for_each_rcu(sk, node, &hslot->head) { score = compute_score(sk, net, saddr, hnum, sport, daddr, dport, dif); if (score > badness) { result = sk; badness = score; } } /* * if the nulls value we got at the end of this lookup is * not the expected one, we must restart lookup. * We probably met an item that was moved to another chain. */ if (get_nulls_value(node) != hash) goto begin; if (result) { if (unlikely(!atomic_inc_not_zero(&result->sk_refcnt))) result = NULL; else if (unlikely(compute_score(result, net, saddr, hnum, sport, daddr, dport, dif) < badness)) { sock_put(result); goto begin; } } rcu_read_unlock(); return result; Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>