netdev - Re: [PATCH] vmxnet3: avoid calling pskb_may

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Date:	Fri, 11 Mar 2016 22:22:18 +0900
From:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
To:	nhorman@...driver.com, davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, skhare@...are.com, pv-drivers@...are.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmxnet3: avoid calling pskb_may_pull with interrupts disabled

Neil Horman wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 03:16:14PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
> > Date: Fri,  4 Mar 2016 13:40:48 -0500

This patch is calling spin_unlock_irqrestore() without spin_lock_irqsave().

In file included from include/linux/seqlock.h:35:0,
                 from include/linux/time.h:5,
                 from include/linux/stat.h:18,
                 from include/linux/module.h:10,
                 from drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c:27:
drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c: In function 'vmxnet3_xmit_frame':
include/linux/spinlock.h:246:30: warning: 'flags' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
   _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(lock, flags); \
                              ^
drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c:977:16: note: 'flags' was declared here
  unsigned long flags;
                ^

vmxnet3_tq_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct vmxnet3_tx_queue *tq,
                struct vmxnet3_adapter *adapter, struct net_device *netdev)
{
(...snipped...)
		goto hdr_too_big;
(...snipped...)
	spin_lock_irqsave(&tq->tx_lock, flags);
(...snipped...)
	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tq->tx_lock, flags);
(...snipped...)
	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
(...snipped...)
hdr_too_big:
        tq->stats.drop_oversized_hdr++;
unlock_drop_pkt:
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tq->tx_lock, flags);
(...snipped...)
	return NETDEV_TX_OK;
}