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SubjectRe: [ofa-general] Re: dst_ifdown breaks infiniband?
> Quoting David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>:
> Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: dst_ifdown breaks infiniband?
>
> From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il>
> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:42:34 +0200
>
> > > Quoting Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il>:
> > > Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: dst_ifdown breaks infiniband?
> > >
> > > > Quoting Eric W. Biederman <ebiederman@lnxi.com>:
> > > > Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: dst_ifdown breaks infiniband?
> > > >
> > > > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il> writes:
> > > >
> > > > >> > Why is neighbour->dev changed here?
> > > > >>
> > > > >> It holds reference to device and prevents its destruction.
> > > > >> If dst is held somewhere, we cannot destroy the device and deadlock
> > > > >> while unregister.
> > > > >
> > > > > BTW, can this ever happen for the loopback device itself?
> > > > > Is it ever unregistered?
> > > >
> > > > Well I don't think the loopback device is currently but as soon
> > > > as we get network namespace support we will have multiple loopback
> > > > devices and they will get unregistered when we remove the network
> > > > namespace.
> > >
> > > Hmm. Then the code moving dst->dev to point to the loopback
> > > device will have to be fixed too. I'll post a patch a bit later.
> >
> > Does this look sane (untested)?
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il>
>
> You can't point it at NULL, we don't point it at loopback
> just for fun.
>
> There can be asynchronous paths elsewhere in the networking still
> referencing the neigh or dst and they will (correctly) feel free to
> derefence whatever device is hanging there. So transitioning
> to NULL is invalid.
>
> You guys will need to come up with a better solution for this silly
> situation with network namespaces. Loopback is always available to
> point dead routes and neighbour entries at, and this assumption is
> massively rooted in the networking.

Yes, I see this now.

I guess it's best to focus on the original problem with dst_ifdown breaking
infiniband for now.

For that, we have to audit all the places where dst->neighbour is dereferenced for
RCU safety, and this is already a massive task.

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MST
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