Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] netfilter: nf_tables: Fix percpu address space issues in nf_tables_api.c

[Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 3, 2024 at 6:14 PM Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 05:29:30PM +0200, Uros Bizjak wrote:
> > Use {ERR_PTR,IS_ERR,PTR_ERR}_PCPU() macros when crossing between generic
> > and percpu address spaces and add __percpu annotation to *stats pointer
> > to fix percpu address space issues.
>
> IIRC, you submitted patch 1/2 in this series to the mm tree.
>
> Let us know if this patch gets upstreamed via MM tree (if mm
> maintainers are fine with it) or maybe MM maintainers prefer an
> alternative path for this.

Dear maintainers,

I would just like to inform you that patch 1/2 got mainlined [1] as
commit a759e37fb467.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a759e37fb46708029c9c3c56c3b62e6f24d85cf5

Best regards,
Uros.

> Thanks.
>
> > NOTE: The patch depends on a patch that introduces *_PCPU() macros [1]
> > that is on the way to mainline through the mm tree. For convience, the
> > patch is included in this patch series, so CI tester is able to test
> > the second patch without compile failures.
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20240818210235.33481-1-ubizjak@gmail.com/
> >
> > The netfilter patch obsoletes patch [2].
> >
> > [2] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netfilter-devel/patch/20240806102808.804619-1-ubizjak@gmail.com/
> >
> > Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
> > Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>
> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> > Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
> > Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
> >
> > Uros Bizjak (2):
> >   err.h: Add ERR_PTR_PCPU(), PTR_ERR_PCPU() and IS_ERR_PCPU() macros
> >   netfilter: nf_tables: Fix percpu address space issues in
> >     nf_tables_api.c
> >
> >  include/linux/err.h           |  9 +++++++++
> >  net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 16 ++++++++--------
> >  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > 2.42.0
> >