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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2016-07-01 07:51:50 +0100
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2016-07-06 10:51:14 +0100
commit8496af50eb385c1cadff9ad396fd5359e96b6c27 (patch)
treeea5adee605917e9b7b1d3b809dc2458cbd07c271 /net/rxrpc/peer_object.c
parent995f1405610bd8446c5be37d2ffc031a7729e406 (diff)
downloadlinux-8496af50eb385c1cadff9ad396fd5359e96b6c27.tar.gz
rxrpc: Use RCU to access a peer's service connection tree
Move to using RCU access to a peer's service connection tree when routing
an incoming packet.  This is done using a seqlock to trigger retrying of
the tree walk if a change happened.

Further, we no longer get a ref on the connection looked up in the
data_ready handler unless we queue the connection's work item - and then
only if the refcount > 0.


Note that I'm avoiding the use of a hash table for service connections
because each service connection is addressed by a 62-bit number
(constructed from epoch and connection ID >> 2) that would allow the client
to engage in bucket stuffing, given knowledge of the hash algorithm.
Peers, however, are hashed as the network address is less controllable by
the client.  The total number of peers will also be limited in a future
commit.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/rxrpc/peer_object.c')
-rw-r--r--net/rxrpc/peer_object.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/rxrpc/peer_object.c b/net/rxrpc/peer_object.c
index 01d4930a11f7..538e9831c699 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/peer_object.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/peer_object.c
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ struct rxrpc_peer *rxrpc_alloc_peer(struct rxrpc_local *local, gfp_t gfp)
 		INIT_WORK(&peer->error_distributor,
 			  &rxrpc_peer_error_distributor);
 		peer->service_conns = RB_ROOT;
-		rwlock_init(&peer->conn_lock);
+		seqlock_init(&peer->service_conn_lock);
 		spin_lock_init(&peer->lock);
 		peer->debug_id = atomic_inc_return(&rxrpc_debug_id);
 	}