On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 10:06 -0500, Pranith Kumar wrote: >> Recently lockless_dereference() was added which can be used in place of >> hard-coding smp_read_barrier_depends(). The following PATCH makes the change. >> >> Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c | 3 +-- >> net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c | 3 +-- >> net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c | 3 +-- >> 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c >> index f95b6f9..fc7533d 100644 >> --- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c >> +++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c >> @@ -270,12 +270,11 @@ unsigned int arpt_do_table(struct sk_buff *skb, >> >> local_bh_disable(); >> addend = xt_write_recseq_begin(); >> - private = table->private; >> /* >> * Ensure we load private-> members after we've fetched the base >> * pointer. >> */ >> - smp_read_barrier_depends(); >> + private = lockless_dereference(table->private); >> table_base = private->entries[smp_processor_id()]; >> > > > Please carefully read the code, before and after your change, then > you'll see this change broke the code. > > Problem is that a bug like that can be really hard to diagnose and fix > later, so really you have to be very careful doing these mechanical > changes. > > IMO, current code+comment is better than with this > lockless_dereference() which in this particular case obfuscates the > code. more than anything. > > In this case we do have a lock (sort of), so lockless_dereference() is > quite misleading. > Hi Eric, Thanks for looking at this patch. I've been scratching my head since morning trying to find out what was so obviously wrong with this patch. Alas, I don't see what you do. Could you point it out and show me how incompetent I am, please? Thanks! -- Pranith -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
