From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org,
pabeni@redhat.com, shenwei.wang@nxp.com, xiaoning.wang@nxp.com,
richardcochran@gmail.com, andrew@lunn.ch, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, imx@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: fec: avoid lock evasion when reading pps_enable
Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 20:56:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240513195649.GY2787@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240513195459.GX2787@kernel.org>
On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 08:54:59PM +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 09:51:26AM +0800, Wei Fang wrote:
> > The assignment of pps_enable is protected by tmreg_lock, but the read
> > operation of pps_enable is not. So the Coverity tool reports a lock
> > evasion warning which may cause data race to occur when running in a
> > multithread environment. Although this issue is almost impossible to
> > occur, we'd better fix it, at least it seems more logically reasonable,
> > and it also prevents Coverity from continuing to issue warnings.
> >
> > Fixes: 278d24047891 ("net: fec: ptp: Enable PPS output based on ptp clock")
> > Signed-off-by: Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Sorry, I convinced myself this is correct.
But I now see that questions have been raised by others.
So please ignore the above.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-13 19:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-13 1:51 [PATCH net] net: fec: avoid lock evasion when reading pps_enable Wei Fang
2024-05-13 7:29 ` Eric Dumazet
2024-05-13 7:53 ` Wei Fang
2024-05-13 8:40 ` Eric Dumazet
2024-05-13 12:18 ` Wei Fang
2024-05-13 9:27 ` Hariprasad Kelam
2024-05-13 12:24 ` Wei Fang
2024-05-14 9:26 ` Hariprasad Kelam
2024-05-13 19:54 ` Simon Horman
2024-05-13 19:56 ` Simon Horman [this message]
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