netfilter: x_tables: make xt_replace_table wait until old rules are not used anymore
xt_replace_table relies on table replacement counter retrieval (which uses xt_recseq to synchronize pcpu counters). This is fine, however with large rule set get_counters() can take a very long time -- it needs to synchronize all counters because it has to assume concurrent modifications can occur. Make xt_replace_table synchronize by itself by waiting until all cpus had an even seqcount. This allows a followup patch to copy the counters of the old ruleset without any synchonization after xt_replace_table has completed. Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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