github-mirror/linux
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git synced 2026-06-07 14:04:54 +02:00
Code Issues Actions Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity Graph
Linux kernel source tree
978,547 Commits 1 Branch 933 Tags 20 GiB
C 97%
Assembly 1%
Shell 0.6%
Rust 0.5%
Python 0.4%
Other 0.3%
8524501a0e
Go to file
Antoine Tenart 8524501a0e net-sysfs: try not to restart the syscall if it will fail eventually 
[ Upstream commit 146e5e7333 ]

Due to deadlocks in the networking subsystem spotted 12 years ago[1],
a workaround was put in place[2] to avoid taking the rtnl lock when it
was not available and restarting the syscall (back to VFS, letting
userspace spin). The following construction is found a lot in the net
sysfs and sysctl code:

  if (!rtnl_trylock())
          return restart_syscall();

This can be problematic when multiple userspace threads use such
interfaces in a short period, making them to spin a lot. This happens
for example when adding and moving virtual interfaces: userspace
programs listening on events, such as systemd-udevd and NetworkManager,
do trigger actions reading files in sysfs. It gets worse when a lot of
virtual interfaces are created concurrently, say when creating
containers at boot time.

Returning early without hitting the above pattern when the syscall will
fail eventually does make things better. While it is not a fix for the
issue, it does ease things.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/49A4D5D5.5090602@trash.net/
    https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/m14oyhis31.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org/
    and https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20090226084924.16cb3e08@nehalam/
[2] Rightfully, those deadlocks are *hard* to solve.

Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2021-11-18 14:03:56 +01:00
arch ia64: don't do IA64_CMPXCHG_DEBUG without CONFIG_PRINTK 2021-11-18 14:03:55 +01:00
block block: schedule queue restart after BLK_STS_ZONE_RESOURCE 2021-11-18 14:03:43 +01:00
certs certs: Trigger creation of RSA module signing key if it's not an RSA key 2021-09-15 09:50:29 +02:00
crypto crypto: sm2 - fix a memory leak in sm2 2021-07-14 16:56:06 +02:00
Documentation fscrypt: allow 256-bit master keys with AES-256-XTS 2021-11-18 14:03:54 +01:00
drivers media: usb: dvd-usb: fix uninit-value bug in dibusb_read_eeprom_byte() 2021-11-18 14:03:56 +01:00
fs fs/proc/uptime.c: Fix idle time reporting in /proc/uptime 2021-11-18 14:03:56 +01:00
include fs/proc/uptime.c: Fix idle time reporting in /proc/uptime 2021-11-18 14:03:56 +01:00
init sched/core: Initialize the idle task with preemption disabled 2021-07-14 16:55:50 +02:00
ipc ipc/mqueue, msg, sem: avoid relying on a stack reference past its expiry 2021-05-26 12:06:54 +02:00
kernel rcu-tasks: Move RTGS_WAIT_CBS to beginning of rcu_tasks_kthread() loop 2021-11-18 14:03:53 +01:00
lib treewide: Change list_sort to use const pointers 2021-09-30 10:11:04 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES/deprecated: add Zlib license text 2020-09-16 14:33:49 +02:00
mm mm: khugepaged: skip huge page collapse for special files 2021-11-06 14:10:09 +01:00
net net-sysfs: try not to restart the syscall if it will fail eventually 2021-11-18 14:03:56 +01:00
samples samples: bpf: Fix tracex7 error raised on the missing argument 2021-09-18 13:40:23 +02:00
scripts gcc-plugins/structleak: add makefile var for disabling structleak 2021-10-27 09:56:54 +02:00
security smackfs: Fix use-after-free in netlbl_catmap_walk() 2021-11-18 14:03:53 +01:00
sound ALSA: mixer: fix deadlock in snd_mixer_oss_set_volume 2021-11-18 14:03:49 +01:00
tools fcnal-test: kill hanging ping/nettest binaries on cleanup 2021-11-18 14:03:42 +01:00
usr Merge branch 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-08-07 13:29:39 -07:00
virt KVM: do not shrink halt_poll_ns below grow_start 2021-10-09 14:40:58 +02:00
.clang-format RDMA 5.10 pull request 2020-10-17 11:18:18 -07:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes
.gitignore kbuild: generate Module.symvers only when vmlinux exists 2021-05-19 10:12:59 +02:00
.mailmap mailmap: add two more addresses of Uwe Kleine-König 2020-12-06 10:19:07 -08:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Move Jason Cooper to CREDITS 2020-11-30 10:20:34 +01:00
Kbuild
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS f2fs: move ioctl interface definitions to separated file 2021-05-19 10:13:00 +02:00
Makefile Linux 5.10.79 2021-11-12 14:58:35 +01:00
README

README 

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 Restructured Text 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.