rtnetlink: Add per-netns RTNL.

The goal is to break RTNL down into per-netns mutex.

This patch adds per-netns mutex and its helper functions, rtnl_net_lock()
and rtnl_net_unlock().

rtnl_net_lock() acquires the global RTNL and per-netns RTNL mutex, and
rtnl_net_unlock() releases them.

We will replace 800+ rtnl_lock() with rtnl_net_lock() and finally removes
rtnl_lock() in rtnl_net_lock().

When we need to nest per-netns RTNL mutex, we will use __rtnl_net_lock(),
and its locking order is defined by rtnl_net_lock_cmp_fn() as follows:

  1. init_net is first
  2. netns address ascending order

Note that the conversion will be done under CONFIG_DEBUG_NET_SMALL_RTNL
with LOCKDEP so that we can carefully add the extra mutex without slowing
down RTNL operations during conversion.

Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/net_namespace.c b/net/core/net_namespace.c
index e39479f1c9a4..105e3cd26763 100644
--- a/net/core/net_namespace.c
+++ b/net/core/net_namespace.c
@@ -334,6 +334,12 @@ static __net_init void preinit_net(struct net *net, struct user_namespace *user_
 	idr_init(&net->netns_ids);
 	spin_lock_init(&net->nsid_lock);
 	mutex_init(&net->ipv4.ra_mutex);
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_NET_SMALL_RTNL
+	mutex_init(&net->rtnl_mutex);
+	lock_set_cmp_fn(&net->rtnl_mutex, rtnl_net_lock_cmp_fn, NULL);
+#endif
+
 	preinit_net_sysctl(net);
 }