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[SCTP]: Convert bind_addr_list locking to RCU

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Since the sctp_sockaddr_entry is now RCU enabled as part of
the patch to synchronize sctp_localaddr_list, it makes sense to
change all handling of these entries to RCU.  This includes the
sctp_bind_addrs structure and it's list of bound addresses.

This list is currently protected by an external rw_lock and that
looks like an overkill.  There are only 2 writers to the list:
bind()/bindx() calls, and BH processing of ASCONF-ACK chunks.
These are already seriealized via the socket lock, so they will
not step on each other.  These are also relatively rare, so we
should be good with RCU.

The readers are varied and they are easily converted to RCU.

Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Sridhar Samdurala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Vlad Yasevich
2007-09-16 16:03:28 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 2930354799
commit 559cf710b0
8 changed files with 105 additions and 162 deletions
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net/sctp/ipv6.c
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@@ -302,9 +302,7 @@ static void sctp_v6_get_saddr(struct sctp_association *asoc,
union sctp_addr *saddr)
{
struct sctp_bind_addr *bp;
rwlock_t *addr_lock;
struct sctp_sockaddr_entry *laddr;
struct list_head *pos;
sctp_scope_t scope;
union sctp_addr *baddr = NULL;
__u8 matchlen = 0;
@@ -324,14 +322,14 @@ static void sctp_v6_get_saddr(struct sctp_association *asoc,
scope = sctp_scope(daddr);
bp = &asoc->base.bind_addr;
addr_lock = &asoc->base.addr_lock;
/* Go through the bind address list and find the best source address
* that matches the scope of the destination address.
*/
sctp_read_lock(addr_lock);
list_for_each(pos, &bp->address_list) {
laddr = list_entry(pos, struct sctp_sockaddr_entry, list);
rcu_read_lock();
list_for_each_entry_rcu(laddr, &bp->address_list, list) {
if (!laddr->valid)
continue;
if ((laddr->use_as_src) &&
(laddr->a.sa.sa_family == AF_INET6) &&
(scope <= sctp_scope(&laddr->a))) {
@@ -353,7 +351,7 @@ static void sctp_v6_get_saddr(struct sctp_association *asoc,
__FUNCTION__, asoc, NIP6(daddr->v6.sin6_addr));
}
sctp_read_unlock(addr_lock);
rcu_read_unlock();
}
/* Make a copy of all potential local addresses. */