Re: [PATCH net 6/6] net/sched: qdisc_destroy() old ingress and clsact Qdiscs before grafting

[Peilin Ye]

On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 02:50:10PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > > Vlad, could you please clarify how you expect the unlocked filter
> > > operations to work when the qdisc has global state?  
> > 
> > Jakub, I didn't account for per-net_device pointer usage by miniqp code
> > hence this bug. I didn't comment on the fix because I was away from my
> > PC last week but Peilin's approach seems reasonable to me. When Peilin
> > brought up the issue initially I also tried to come up with some trick
> > to contain the changes to miniqp code instead of changing core but
> > couldn't think of anything workable due to the limitations already
> > discussed in this thread. I'm open to explore alternative approaches to
> > solving this issue, if that is what you suggest.
> 
> Given Peilin's investigation I think fix without changing core may
> indeed be hard. I'm not sure if returning -EBUSY when qdisc refcnt
> is elevated will be appreciated by the users, do we already have
> similar behavior in other parts of TC?

Seems like trying to delete an "in-use" cls_u32 filter returns -EBUSY:

net/sched/cls_u32.c:

	if (ht->refcnt == 1) {
		u32_destroy_hnode(tp, ht, extack);
	} else {
		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "Can not delete in-use filter");
		return -EBUSY;
	}

Thanks,
Peilin Ye