neighbour: Protect tbl->phash_buckets[] with a dedicated mutex.
tbl->phash_buckets[] is only modified in the slow path by pneigh_create() and pneigh_delete() under the table lock. Both of them are called under RTNL, so no extra lock is needed, but we will remove RTNL from the paths. pneigh_create() looks up a pneigh_entry, and this part can be lockless, but it would complicate the logic like 1. lookup 2. allocate pengih_entry for GFP_KERNEL 3. lookup again but under lock 4. if found, return it after freeing the allocated memory 5. else, return the new one Instead, let's add a per-table mutex and run lookup and allocation under it. Note that updating pneigh_entry part in neigh_add() is still protected by RTNL and will be moved to pneigh_create() in the next patch. Signed-off-by:Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250716221221.442239-15-kuniyu@google.com Signed-off-by:
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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