Subject: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/2] raw: RCU conversion

From: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 20:47:03 -0700

From: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>

Using rwlock in networking code is extremely risky.
writers can starve if enough readers are constantly
grabing the rwlock.

I thought rwlock were at fault and sent this patch:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/6/17/272

But Peter and Linus essentially told me rwlock had to be unfair.

We need to get rid of rwlock in networking stacks.

Without this conversion, following script triggers soft lockups:

for i in {1..48}
do
 ping -f -n -q 127.0.0.1 &
 sleep 0.1
done

Next step will be to convert ping sockets to RCU as well.

v2: small issue in first patch, detected by kernel bot
    Polish second patch in net/ipv4/raw_diag.c

Eric Dumazet (2):
  raw: use more conventional iterators
  raw: convert raw sockets to RCU

 include/net/raw.h   |  16 +++--
 include/net/rawv6.h |   7 +-
 net/ipv4/af_inet.c  |   2 +
 net/ipv4/raw.c      | 162 +++++++++++++++++---------------------------
 net/ipv4/raw_diag.c |  53 ++++++++-------
 net/ipv6/af_inet6.c |   3 +
 net/ipv6/raw.c      | 119 ++++++++++++--------------------
 7 files changed, 157 insertions(+), 205 deletions(-)

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