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Commit 78fd1d0a authored by Thomas Graf's avatar Thomas Graf Committed by David S. Miller
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netlink: Re-add locking to netlink_lookup() and seq walker



The synchronize_rcu() in netlink_release() introduces unacceptable
latency. Reintroduce minimal lookup so we can drop the
synchronize_rcu() until socket destruction has been RCUfied.

Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Reported-by: default avatarSteinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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