rhashtable: detect when object movement between tables might have invalidated a lookup

Some users of rhashtables might need to move an object from one table
to another -  this appears to be the reason for the incomplete usage
of NULLS markers.

To support these, we store a unique NULLS_MARKER at the end of
each chain, and when a search fails to find a match, we check
if the NULLS marker found was the expected one.  If not, the search
may not have examined all objects in the target bucket, so it is
repeated.

The unique NULLS_MARKER is derived from the address of the
head of the chain.  As this cannot be derived at load-time the
static rhnull in rht_bucket_nested() needs to be initialised
at run time.

Any caller of a lookup function must still be prepared for the
possibility that the object returned is in a different table - it
might have been there for some time.

Note that this does NOT provide support for other uses of
NULLS_MARKERs such as allocating with SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU or changing
the key of an object and re-inserting it in the same table.
These could only be done safely if new objects were inserted
at the *start* of a hash chain, and that is not currently the case.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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