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author | Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com> | 2025-07-16 22:08:10 +0000 |
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committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2025-07-17 16:25:20 -0700 |
commit | e804bd83c1fd7e1f03899c948812ebc207ac5a7e (patch) | |
tree | 3d43ac3ccdac4011710a5fcea11a92e7e2b756a9 /net/unix/af_unix.c | |
parent | 0e5ac19c78654abbf43dc4ffdae290c8cb81c59c (diff) |
neighbour: Split pneigh_lookup().
pneigh_lookup() has ASSERT_RTNL() in the middle of the function, which
is confusing.
When called with the last argument, creat, 0, pneigh_lookup() literally
looks up a proxy neighbour entry. This is the case of the reader path
as the fast path and RTM_GETNEIGH.
pneigh_lookup(), however, creates a pneigh_entry when called with creat 1
from RTM_NEWNEIGH and SIOCSARP, which require RTNL.
Let's split pneigh_lookup() into two functions.
We will convert all the reader paths to RCU, and read_lock_bh(&tbl->lock)
in the new pneigh_lookup() will be dropped.
Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250716221221.442239-6-kuniyu@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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