Revert "netfilter: x_tables: Update remaining dereference to RCU"
authorMark Tomlinson <mark.tomlinson@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Mon, 8 Mar 2021 01:24:11 +0000 (14:24 +1300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 30 Mar 2021 12:32:06 +0000 (14:32 +0200)
commitc33f918758fa11143caec15e6e565edb103bf761
tree8790f189d10a6597ba4aea79c59eb46c820fda8c
parentde2e6b4e32d6be7ed2218c1b20a9f81f8859ec2a
Revert "netfilter: x_tables: Update remaining dereference to RCU"

[ Upstream commit abe7034b9a8d57737e80cc16d60ed3666990bdbf ]

This reverts commit 443d6e86f821a165fae3fc3fc13086d27ac140b1.

This (and the following) patch basically re-implemented the RCU
mechanisms of patch 784544739a25. That patch was replaced because of the
performance problems that it created when replacing tables. Now, we have
the same issue: the call to synchronize_rcu() makes replacing tables
slower by as much as an order of magnitude.

Revert these patches and fix the issue in a different way.

Signed-off-by: Mark Tomlinson <mark.tomlinson@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c