rhashtable: Add rhashtable_next_key() API

Introduce a simpler iteration mechanism for rhashtable that lets
the caller continue from an arbitrary position by supplying the
previous key, without the per-iterator state of the
rhashtable_walk_* API.

  void *rhashtable_next_key(struct rhashtable *ht,
                            const void *prev_key);

Caller holds RCU; passes NULL prev_key for the first element or
the previously returned key to advance. Walks tbl->future_tbl
chain so in-flight rehashes are observed.

Best-effort: in case of concurrent resize, provides no guarantees:
 - may produce duplicate elements
 - may skip any amount of elements
 - termination of the loop is not guaranteed in case of
 sustained rehash. Callers are advised to bound loop externally
 or avoid inserting new elements during such loop.

Returns ERR_PTR(-ENOENT) if prev_key is not found.
Behavior on tables with duplicate keys is undefined.
rhltable is not supported — returns ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP).

Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260605-rhash-v7-1-5b8e05f8630d@meta.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 40 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/rhashtable.h b/include/linux/rhashtable.h
index ef5230cece36..6f3aea498515 100644
--- a/include/linux/rhashtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/rhashtable.h
@@ -651,6 +651,46 @@ restart:
 }
 
 /**
+ * rhashtable_next_key - return next element after a given key
+ * @ht:		hash table
+ * @prev_key:	pointer to previous key, or NULL for the first element
+ *
+ * WARNING: this walk is highly unstable. Unlike rhashtable_walk_*(),
+ * it cannot detect a concurrent resize or rehash, so a full iteration
+ * is NOT guaranteed to terminate under adversarial or sustained
+ * rehashing. Callers MUST tolerate skipped and duplicated elements and
+ * SHOULD bound their loop externally.
+ *
+ * Returns the next element in best-effort iteration order, walking the
+ * @tbl chain (including any future_tbl in flight). Caller must hold RCU.
+ *
+ * Pass @prev_key == NULL to obtain the first element. To iterate, set
+ * @prev_key to the key of the previously returned element on each call,
+ * and stop when NULL is returned.
+ *
+ * Best-effort semantics:
+ *   - Across the tbl->future_tbl chain, an element being migrated may
+ *     transiently appear in both tables and be observed twice.
+ *   - Concurrent inserts may or may not be observed.
+ *   - Termination of a full iteration loop is NOT guaranteed under
+ *     adversarial continuous rehash; callers MUST tolerate skips and
+ *     repeats and SHOULD bound their loop externally.
+ *   - Behavior on tables that contain duplicate keys is undefined:
+ *     duplicates may be skipped, repeated, or trap the walk in a
+ *     cycle. Callers requiring duplicate-key iteration must use
+ *     rhashtable_walk_*() instead.
+ *   - rhltable instances are not supported and return
+ *     ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP).
+ *   - If prev_key was concurrently deleted and is not present in any
+ *     in-flight table, returns ERR_PTR(-ENOENT).
+ *
+ * Returns entry of the next element, or NULL when iteration is exhausted,
+ * or ERR_PTR(-ENOENT) if prev_key is not found, or
+ * ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP) if @ht is an rhltable.
+ */
+void *rhashtable_next_key(struct rhashtable *ht, const void *prev_key);
+
+/**
  * rhashtable_lookup - search hash table
  * @ht:		hash table
  * @key:	the pointer to the key