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Commit 02df55d2 authored by Arnd Bergmann's avatar Arnd Bergmann Committed by David S. Miller
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macvtap: rework object lifetime rules



This reworks the change done by the previous patch
in a more complete way.

The original macvtap code has a number of problems
resulting from the use of RCU for protecting the
access to struct macvtap_queue from open files.

This includes
- need for GFP_ATOMIC allocations for skbs
- potential deadlocks when copy_*_user sleeps
- inability to work with vhost-net

Changing the lifetime of macvtap_queue to always
depend on the open file solves all these. The
RCU reference simply moves one step down to
the reference on the macvlan_dev, which we
only need for nonblocking operations.

Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: default avatarSridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 37ee3d5b
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