Re: [Patch net-next 3/5] net_sched: fix suspicious RCU usage in tcindex_classify()

[John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>]

On 09/15/2014 02:06 PM, Cong Wang wrote:
> This patch fixes the following kernel warning:
> 
> [   44.805900] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
> [   44.808946] 3.17.0-rc4+ #610 Not tainted
> [   44.811831] -------------------------------
> [   44.814873] net/sched/cls_tcindex.c:84 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
> 
> Fixes: commit 331b72922c5f58d48fd ("net: sched: RCU cls_tcindex")
> Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
> ---
>  net/sched/cls_tcindex.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/sched/cls_tcindex.c b/net/sched/cls_tcindex.c
> index 16ec1ed..f276de5 100644
> --- a/net/sched/cls_tcindex.c
> +++ b/net/sched/cls_tcindex.c
> @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ tcindex_lookup(struct tcindex_data *p, u16 key)
>  static int tcindex_classify(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct tcf_proto *tp,
>  			    struct tcf_result *res)
>  {
> -	struct tcindex_data *p = rcu_dereference(tp->root);
> +	struct tcindex_data *p = rcu_dereference_bh(tp->root);
>  	struct tcindex_filter_result *f;
>  	int key = (skb->tc_index & p->mask) >> p->shift;
>  
> 

Thanks for catching/fixing. I also missed cls_bpf.c case I'll send a fix
in a moment.


Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>