netdev - Re: [PATCH v1 3/5] cgroup: net_cls: Remove rcu_read

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Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:42:52 -0400
From:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:	Daniel Wagner <wagi@...om.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@...-carit.de>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/5] cgroup: net_cls: Remove rcu_read_lock/unlock

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 04:16:57PM +0200, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> From: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@...-carit.de>
> 
> As Eric pointed out:
> "Hey task_cls_classid() has its own rcu protection since commit
> 3fb5a991916091a908d (cls_cgroup: Fix rcu lockdep warning)
> 
> So we can safely revert Paul commit (1144182a8757f2a1)
> (We no longer need rcu_read_lock/unlock here)"
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@...-carit.de>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: cgroups@...r.kernel.org
> ---
>  net/core/sock.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/sock.c b/net/core/sock.c
> index c49412c..9fedbbf 100644
> --- a/net/core/sock.c
> +++ b/net/core/sock.c
> @@ -1221,9 +1221,7 @@ void sock_update_classid(struct sock *sk)
>  {
>  	u32 classid;
>  
> -	rcu_read_lock();  /* doing current task, which cannot vanish. */
>  	classid = task_cls_classid(current);
> -	rcu_read_unlock();
>  	if (classid != sk->sk_classid)
>  		sk->sk_classid = classid;
>  }
> -- 
> 1.8.0.rc0
> 
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Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
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