xfrm: Fix RCU vs hash_resize_mutex lock inversion
xfrm_bydst_resize() calls synchronize_rcu() while holding hash_resize_mutex. But then on PREEMPT_RT configurations, xfrm_policy_lookup_bytype() may acquire that mutex while running in an RCU read side critical section. This results in a deadlock. In fact the scope of hash_resize_mutex is way beyond the purpose of xfrm_policy_lookup_bytype() to just fetch a coherent and stable policy for a given destination/direction, along with other details. The lower level net->xfrm.xfrm_policy_lock, which among other things protects per destination/direction references to policy entries, is enough to serialize and benefit from priority inheritance against the write side. As a bonus, it makes it officially a per network namespace synchronization business where a policy table resize on namespace A shouldn't block a policy lookup on namespace B. Fixes: 77cc278f (xfrm: policy: Use sequence counters with associated lock) Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Ahmed S. Darwish <a.darwish@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Varad Gautam <varad.gautam@suse.com> Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
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