xfrm: take refcnt of dst when creating struct xfrm_dst bundle

During the creation of xfrm_dst bundle, always take ref count when
allocating the dst. This way, xfrm_bundle_create() will form a linked
list of dst with dst->child pointing to a ref counted dst child. And
the returned dst pointer is also ref counted. This makes the link from
the flow cache to this dst now ref counted properly.
As the dst is always ref counted properly, we can safely mark
DST_NOGC flag so dst_release() will release dst based on refcnt only.
And dst gc is no longer needed and all dst_free() and its related
function calls should be replaced with dst_release() or
dst_release_immediate().

The special handling logic for dst->child in dst_destroy() can be
replaced with a simple dst_release_immediate() call on the child to
release the whole list linked by dst->child pointer.
Previously used DST_NOHASH flag is not needed anymore as well. The
reason that DST_NOHASH is used in the existing code is mainly to prevent
the dst inserted in the fib tree to be wrongly destroyed during the
deletion of the xfrm_dst bundle. So in the existing code, DST_NOHASH
flag is marked in all the dst children except the one which is in the
fib tree.
However, with this patch series to remove dst gc logic and release dst
only based on ref count, it is safe to release all the children from a
xfrm_dst bundle as long as the dst children are all ref counted
properly which is already the case in the existing code.
So, this patch removes the use of DST_NOHASH flag.

Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/net/core/dst.c b/net/core/dst.c
index 56998f69b84e..64056ecca5b8 100644
--- a/net/core/dst.c
+++ b/net/core/dst.c
@@ -250,7 +250,6 @@ struct dst_entry *dst_destroy(struct dst_entry * dst)
 
 	smp_rmb();
 
-again:
 	child = dst->child;
 
 	if (!(dst->flags & DST_NOCOUNT))
@@ -269,20 +268,8 @@ again:
 		kmem_cache_free(dst->ops->kmem_cachep, dst);
 
 	dst = child;
-	if (dst) {
-		int nohash = dst->flags & DST_NOHASH;
-
-		if (atomic_dec_and_test(&dst->__refcnt)) {
-			/* We were real parent of this dst, so kill child. */
-			if (nohash)
-				goto again;
-		} else {
-			/* Child is still referenced, return it for freeing. */
-			if (nohash)
-				return dst;
-			/* Child is still in his hash table */
-		}
-	}
+	if (dst)
+		dst_release_immediate(dst);
 	return NULL;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(dst_destroy);
@@ -292,8 +279,6 @@ static void dst_destroy_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
 	struct dst_entry *dst = container_of(head, struct dst_entry, rcu_head);
 
 	dst = dst_destroy(dst);
-	if (dst)
-		__dst_free(dst);
 }
 
 /* Operations to mark dst as DEAD and clean up the net device referenced