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Commit c3718936 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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ipv6: anycast: complete RCU handling of struct ifacaddr6



struct ifacaddr6 are already freed after RCU grace period.

Add __rcu qualifier to aca_next pointer, and idev->ac_list

Add relevant rcu_assign_pointer() and dereference accessors.

ipv6_chk_acast_dev() no longer needs to acquire idev->lock.

/proc/net/anycast6 is now purely RCU protected, it no
longer acquires idev->lock.

Similarly in6_dump_addrs() can use RCU protection to iterate
through anycast addresses. It was relying on a mixture of RCU
and RTNL but next patches will get rid of RTNL there.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240223201054.220534-1-edumazet@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent 5c237967
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