On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 4:54 PM Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Currently, the bpf hashmap iterator takes a bucket_lock, a spin_lock, > before visiting each element in the bucket. This will cause a deadlock > if a map update/delete operates on an element with the same > bucket id of the visited map. > > To avoid the deadlock, let us just use rcu_read_lock instead of > bucket_lock. This may result in visiting stale elements, missing some elements, > or repeating some elements, if concurrent map delete/update happens for the > same map. I think using rcu_read_lock is a reasonable compromise. > For users caring stale/missing/repeating element issues, bpf map batch > access syscall interface can be used. > > Note that another approach is during bpf_iter link stage, we check > whether the iter program might be able to do update/delete to the visited > map. If it is, reject the link_create. Verifier needs to record whether > an update/delete operation happens for each map for this approach. > I just feel this checking is too specialized, hence still prefer > rcu_read_lock approach. > > Patch #1 has the kernel implementation and Patch #2 added a selftest > which can trigger deadlock without Patch #1. Applied. Thanks
