In IPv4 routing code, fib_nh and fib_nh_exception can hold pointers
to struct rtable but they never increment dst->__refcnt.
This leads to the need of the dst garbage collector because when user
is done with this dst and calls dst_release(), it can only decrement
dst->__refcnt and can not free the dst even it sees dst->__refcnt
drops from 1 to 0 (unless DST_NOCACHE flag is set) because the routing
code might still hold reference to it.
And when the routing code tries to delete a route, it has to put the
dst to the gc_list if dst->__refcnt is not yet 0 and have a gc thread
running periodically to check on dst->__refcnt and finally to free dst
when refcnt becomes 0.
This patch increments dst->__refcnt when
fib_nh/fib_nh_exception holds reference to this dst and properly release
the dst when fib_nh/fib_nh_exception has been updated with a new dst.
This patch is a preparation in order to fully get rid of dst gc later.
Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* free_fib_info_rcu()
*/
+ dst_release(&rt->dst);
dst_free(&rt->dst);
}
struct rtable *rt;
rt = rcu_dereference_protected(*per_cpu_ptr(rtp, cpu), 1);
- if (rt)
+ if (rt) {
+ dst_release(&rt->dst);
dst_free(&rt->dst);
+ }
}
free_percpu(rtp);
}
rt = rcu_dereference(fnhe->fnhe_rth_input);
if (rt) {
RCU_INIT_POINTER(fnhe->fnhe_rth_input, NULL);
+ dst_release(&rt->dst);
rt_free(rt);
}
rt = rcu_dereference(fnhe->fnhe_rth_output);
if (rt) {
RCU_INIT_POINTER(fnhe->fnhe_rth_output, NULL);
+ dst_release(&rt->dst);
rt_free(rt);
}
}
rt->rt_gateway = daddr;
if (!(rt->dst.flags & DST_NOCACHE)) {
+ dst_hold(&rt->dst);
rcu_assign_pointer(*porig, rt);
- if (orig)
+ if (orig) {
+ dst_release(&orig->dst);
rt_free(orig);
+ }
ret = true;
}
}
orig = *p;
+ /* hold dst before doing cmpxchg() to avoid race condition
+ * on this dst
+ */
+ dst_hold(&rt->dst);
prev = cmpxchg(p, orig, rt);
if (prev == orig) {
- if (orig)
+ if (orig) {
+ dst_release(&orig->dst);
rt_free(orig);
- } else
+ }
+ } else {
+ dst_release(&rt->dst);
ret = false;
+ }
return ret;
}