Re: [PATCH] pkt_sched: Destroy gen estimators under rtnl_lock().
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2008-08-22 10:27:34
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:07:08 +1000
Yes the ingress hierachy has a single root, i.e., it's a tree. But that has nothing to do with what I was talking about. I'm talking about the list at dev->rx_queue.qdisc_sleeping->list which is certainly not guaranteed to be empty.
It is guarenteed to be empty. Only root qdiscs go to rx_queue.qdisc_sleeping, and such qdiscs will always have an empty list.
If you look at qdisc_create you'll find that every time we create a non-root ingress qdisc we add it to that list (we have to, otherwise qdisc_lookup doesn't work at all for ingress qdiscs).
We don't allow non-root ingress qdiscs. All ingress qdiscs always take the device graft path, and always have a parent of TC_H_INGRESS, and always operate on rx_queue.
So when somebody on the TX side does a qdisc_lookup they may be walking the RX list without any protection. Similarly, if somebody on the ingress side does qdisc_lookup they may walk the TX lists without protection.
Ingress data paths do not do qdisc_lookup(). There is only root allowed for ingress and thus rx_queue's non-default qdiscs. Add some assertions and run some test tc commands if you don't believe me :)