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SubjectRe: [PATCH net 6/6] net/sched: qdisc_destroy() old ingress and clsact Qdiscs before grafting
On Tue, 16 May 2023 22:35:51 +0300 Vlad Buslov wrote:
> > Vlad, could you please clarify how you expect the unlocked filter
> > operations to work when the qdisc has global state?
>
> Jakub, I didn't account for per-net_device pointer usage by miniqp code
> hence this bug. I didn't comment on the fix because I was away from my
> PC last week but Peilin's approach seems reasonable to me. When Peilin
> brought up the issue initially I also tried to come up with some trick
> to contain the changes to miniqp code instead of changing core but
> couldn't think of anything workable due to the limitations already
> discussed in this thread. I'm open to explore alternative approaches to
> solving this issue, if that is what you suggest.

Given Peilin's investigation I think fix without changing core may
indeed be hard. I'm not sure if returning -EBUSY when qdisc refcnt
is elevated will be appreciated by the users, do we already have
similar behavior in other parts of TC?

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