Re: [PATCH net] net: rtnl_register in net_ns_init need rtnl_lock

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 6:41 AM, Hannes Frederic Sowa
[off-list ref] wrote:

On 22.09.2016 15:03, Eric Dumazet wrote:

quoted

On Thu, 2016-09-22 at 13:03 +0200, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:

quoted

Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <redacted>
---
 net/core/net_namespace.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/core/net_namespace.c b/net/core/net_namespace.c
index 2c2eb1b629b11d..a2ace299f28355 100644
--- a/net/core/net_namespace.c
+++ b/net/core/net_namespace.c

@@ -758,9 +758,11 @@ static int __init net_ns_init(void)

     register_pernet_subsys(&net_ns_ops);

+    rtnl_lock();
     rtnl_register(PF_UNSPEC, RTM_NEWNSID, rtnl_net_newid, NULL, NULL);
     rtnl_register(PF_UNSPEC, RTM_GETNSID, rtnl_net_getid, rtnl_net_dumpid,
                   NULL);
+    rtnl_unlock();

     return 0;
 }

Hi Hannes

Why is this needed here, and not in other places ?

I found this during working on the file and actually saw no live issues
(belonged to another series which I just split up).

I don't think it is a big issue but wanted the writes to the
rtnl_msg_handlers array to be strictly serialized. I was working on
adding this to other places, too. Maybe better for net-next even?

But they are called during boot, why is it possible to have a parallel
reader/writer at that time?