Re: [PATCH 4.4 022/118] IB/uverbs: Fix race between uverbs_close and remove_one

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 02:28:40PM +0200, Vegard Nossum wrote:

> This lock is literally called "cleanup mutex" and it's not really
> documented what data it protects. Is there a better solution here?

I agree it is very complex and hard to understand. This is why it
needed patching :| The mutex is in fact pretty much locking
code. (ensuring that ib_uverbs_cleanup_ucontext only runs on one
thread during this race)

There are at least three locks involved in this process. I didn't see
any obvious way to extend any of the other locks to handle this case.

The argument against most simple solutions (eg a rw lock rather than
the srcu) has been performance on these paths.

Jason