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linux/net/ipv4/ping.c
Eric Dumazet de3d723a39 ping: convert to RCU lookups, get rid of rwlock 
[ Upstream commit dbca1596bb ]

Using rwlock in networking code is extremely risky.
writers can starve if enough readers are constantly
grabing the rwlock.

I thought rwlock were at fault and sent this patch:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/6/17/272

But Peter and Linus essentially told me rwlock had to be unfair.

We need to get rid of rwlock in networking code.

Fixes: c319b4d76b ("net: ipv4: add IPPROTO_ICMP socket kind")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-08-17 15:14:30 +02:00

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