netdev - [Patch net-next 3/5] net_sched: fix suspicious RCU usage in tcindex

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Date:	Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:06:48 -0700
From:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	john.fastabend@...il.com, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
Subject: [Patch net-next 3/5] net_sched: fix suspicious RCU usage in tcindex_classify()

This patch fixes the following kernel warning:

[   44.805900] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
[   44.808946] 3.17.0-rc4+ #610 Not tainted
[   44.811831] -------------------------------
[   44.814873] net/sched/cls_tcindex.c:84 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!

Fixes: commit 331b72922c5f58d48fd ("net: sched: RCU cls_tcindex")
Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
---
 net/sched/cls_tcindex.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/sched/cls_tcindex.c b/net/sched/cls_tcindex.c
index 16ec1ed..f276de5 100644
--- a/net/sched/cls_tcindex.c
+++ b/net/sched/cls_tcindex.c
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ tcindex_lookup(struct tcindex_data *p, u16 key)
 static int tcindex_classify(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct tcf_proto *tp,
 			    struct tcf_result *res)
 {
-	struct tcindex_data *p = rcu_dereference(tp->root);
+	struct tcindex_data *p = rcu_dereference_bh(tp->root);
 	struct tcindex_filter_result *f;
 	int key = (skb->tc_index & p->mask) >> p->shift;
 
-- 
1.8.3.1

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