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Eric's suggested fix for the previous commit's mentioned race condition was to simply take the table->lock in wg_index_hashtable_replace(). The table->lock of the hash table is supposed to protect the bucket heads, not the entires, but actually, since all the mutator functions are already taking it, it makes sense to take it too for the test to hlist_unhashed, as a defense in depth measure, so that it no longer races with deletions, regardless of what other locks are protecting individual entries. This is sensible from a performance perspective because, as Eric pointed out, the case of being unhashed is already the unlikely case, so this won't add common contention. And comparing instructions, this basically doesn't make much of a difference other than pushing and popping %r13, used by the new `bool ret`. More generally, I like the idea of locking consistency across table mutator functions, and this might let me rest slightly easier at night. Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/wireguard/20200908145911.4090480-1-edumazet@google.com/ Fixes: e7096c131e51 ("net: WireGuard secure network tunnel") Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.