From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
fengguang.wu@intel.com, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH] netpoll: cleanup sparse warnings
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 09:56:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1360248961-30721-1-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
With my recent commit I introduced two sparse warnings. Looking closer there
were a few more in the same file, so I fixed them all up. Basic rcu pointer
dereferencing suff
Signed-offy-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
CC: fengguang.wu@intel.com
CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
net/core/netpoll.c | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index edcd9ad..1c829c0 100644
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ static void netpoll_poll_dev(struct net_device *dev)
* the dev_open/close paths use this to block netpoll activity
* while changing device state
*/
- if (!mutex_trylock(&dev->npinfo->dev_lock))
+ if (!mutex_trylock(&ni->dev_lock))
return;
if (!dev || !netif_running(dev))
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ static void netpoll_poll_dev(struct net_device *dev)
poll_napi(dev);
- mutex_unlock(&dev->npinfo->dev_lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&ni->dev_lock);
if (dev->flags & IFF_SLAVE) {
if (ni) {
@@ -1054,7 +1054,7 @@ int __netpoll_setup(struct netpoll *np, struct net_device *ndev, gfp_t gfp)
goto free_npinfo;
}
} else {
- npinfo = ndev->npinfo;
+ npinfo = rtnl_dereference(ndev->npinfo);
atomic_inc(&npinfo->refcnt);
}
@@ -1234,7 +1234,11 @@ void __netpoll_cleanup(struct netpoll *np)
struct netpoll_info *npinfo;
unsigned long flags;
- npinfo = np->dev->npinfo;
+ /* rtnl_dereference would be preferable here but
+ * rcu_cleanup_netpoll path can put us in here safely without
+ * holding the rtnl, so plain rcu_dereference it is
+ */
+ npinfo = rcu_dereference(np->dev->npinfo);
if (!npinfo)
return;
--
1.7.11.7
next reply other threads:[~2013-02-07 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-07 14:56 Neil Horman [this message]
2013-02-07 15:52 ` [PATCH] netpoll: cleanup sparse warnings Eric Dumazet
2013-02-07 18:37 ` Neil Horman
2013-02-08 3:25 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-02-08 15:47 ` Neil Horman
2013-02-08 16:44 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-02-08 18:14 ` Neil Horman
2013-02-11 20:25 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] netpoll: Cleanup netpoll locking and " Neil Horman
2013-02-11 20:25 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] netpoll: Fix __netpoll_rcu_free so that it can hold the rtnl lock Neil Horman
2013-02-12 0:19 ` David Miller
2013-02-11 20:25 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] netpoll: cleanup sparse warnings Neil Horman
2013-02-12 0:19 ` David Miller
2013-02-11 21:11 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] netpoll: Cleanup netpoll locking and " David Miller
2013-02-11 21:51 ` Neil Horman
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