The purpose of the rehash delayed work is to reduce the number of masks (eRPs) used by an ACL region as the eRP bank is a global and limited resource. This is done in three steps: 1. Creating a new set of masks and a new ACL region which will use the new masks and to which the existing filters will be migrated to. The new region is assigned to 'vregion->region' and the region from which the filters are migrated from is assigned to 'vregion->region2'. 2. Migrating all the filters from the old region to the new region. 3. Destroying the old region and setting 'vregion->region2' to NULL. Only the second steps is performed under the 'vregion->lock' mutex although its comments says that among other things it "Protects consistency of region, region2 pointers". This is problematic as the first step can race with filter insertion from user space that uses 'vregion->region', but under the mutex. Fix by holding the mutex across the entirety of the delayed work and not only during the second step. Fixes: 2bffc5322fd8 ("mlxsw: spectrum_acl: Don't take mutex in mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_vregion_rehash_work()") Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Tested-by: Alexander Zubkov <green@qrator.net> Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1ec1d54edf2bad0a369e6b4fa030aba64e1f124b.1713797103.git.petrm@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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