netdev - [PATCH] net: remove a WARN_ON() in net_enable

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Date:	Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:38:28 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Laurent Chavey <chavey@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net: remove a WARN_ON() in net_enable_timestamp()

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

The WARN_ON(in_interrupt()) in net_enable_timestamp() can get false
positive, in socket clone path, run from softirq context :

[ 3641.624425] WARNING: at net/core/dev.c:1532 net_enable_timestamp+0x7b/0x80()
[ 3641.668811] Call Trace:
[ 3641.671254]  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff80286817>] warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xc0
[ 3641.677871]  [<ffffffff8028686a>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[ 3641.683683]  [<ffffffff80742f8b>] net_enable_timestamp+0x7b/0x80
[ 3641.689668]  [<ffffffff80732ce5>] sk_clone_lock+0x425/0x450
[ 3641.695222]  [<ffffffff8078db36>] inet_csk_clone_lock+0x16/0x170
[ 3641.701213]  [<ffffffff807ae449>] tcp_create_openreq_child+0x29/0x820
[ 3641.707663]  [<ffffffff807d62e2>] ? ipt_do_table+0x222/0x670
[ 3641.713354]  [<ffffffff807aaf5b>] tcp_v4_syn_recv_sock+0xab/0x3d0
[ 3641.719425]  [<ffffffff807af63a>] tcp_check_req+0x3da/0x530
[ 3641.724979]  [<ffffffff8078b400>] ? inet_hashinfo_init+0x60/0x80
[ 3641.730964]  [<ffffffff807ade6f>] ? tcp_v4_rcv+0x79f/0xbe0
[ 3641.736430]  [<ffffffff807ab9bd>] tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x38d/0x4f0
[ 3641.741985]  [<ffffffff807ae14a>] tcp_v4_rcv+0xa7a/0xbe0

Its safe at this point because the parent socket owns a reference
on the netstamp_needed, so we cant have a 0 -> 1 transition, which
requires to lock a mutex.

Instead of refining the check, lets remove it, as all known callers
are safe. If it ever changes in the future, static_key_slow_inc()
will complain anyway.

Reported-by: Laurent Chavey <chavey@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
---
 net/core/dev.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index d540ced..b13e5c7 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1545,7 +1545,6 @@ void net_enable_timestamp(void)
 		return;
 	}
 #endif
-	WARN_ON(in_interrupt());
 	static_key_slow_inc(&netstamp_needed);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(net_enable_timestamp);


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