Re: [PATCH net] net: airoha: Fix schedule while atomic in airoha_ppe_deinit()

Lorenzo Bianconi
2026-01-05T08:33:16Z

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> On Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:56:44 +0100 Lorenzo Bianconi wrote:
> > Rely on rcu_replace_pointer in airoha_ppe_deinit routine in order to fix
> > schedule while atomic issue.
>
> The information in the commit message is not sufficient.
> What "schedule while atomic issue"?

The issue is we run kzalloc() with GFP_KERNEL in airoha_npu_ppe_deinit()
in atomic context but we do not really need atomic context there.
I will fix the commit log in v2.

Regards,
Lorenzo

>
> > - npu = rcu_dereference(eth->npu);
> > + mutex_lock(&flow_offload_mutex);
> > +
> > + npu = rcu_replace_pointer(eth->npu, NULL,
> > + lockdep_is_held(&flow_offload_mutex));
> > if (npu) {
> > npu->ops.ppe_deinit(npu);
> > airoha_npu_put(npu);
> --
> pw-bot: cr

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