Thread (13 messages) 13 messages, 3 authors, 2018-12-03

Re: [PATCH v3] rhashtable: detect when object movement between tables might have invalidated a lookup

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date: 2018-12-01 08:47:40
Also in: lkml

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 10:26:50AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/lib/rhashtable.c b/lib/rhashtable.c
index 30526afa8343..852ffa5160f1 100644
--- a/lib/rhashtable.c
+++ b/lib/rhashtable.c
@@ -1179,8 +1179,7 @@ struct rhash_head __rcu **rht_bucket_nested(const struct bucket_table *tbl,
 					    unsigned int hash)
 {
 	const unsigned int shift = PAGE_SHIFT - ilog2(sizeof(void *));
-	static struct rhash_head __rcu *rhnull =
-		(struct rhash_head __rcu *)NULLS_MARKER(0);
+	static struct rhash_head __rcu *rhnull;
 	unsigned int index = hash & ((1 << tbl->nest) - 1);
 	unsigned int size = tbl->size >> tbl->nest;
 	unsigned int subhash = hash;
@@ -1198,8 +1197,11 @@ struct rhash_head __rcu **rht_bucket_nested(const struct bucket_table *tbl,
 		subhash >>= shift;
 	}
 
-	if (!ntbl)
+	if (!ntbl) {
+		if (!rhnull)
+			INIT_RHT_NULLS_HEAD(rhnull);
 		return &rhnull;
+	}
I think you missed my earlier reply beause of bouncing emails.

I think this is unnecessary because

	RHT_NULLS_MARKER(RHT_NULLS_MARKER(0)) = RHT_NULLS_MARKER(0)

Thanks,
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