netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: use a work queue to defer net_disable

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Date:   Fri, 03 Feb 2017 16:18:16 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, edumazet@...gle.com, dvyukov@...gle.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: use a work queue to defer
 net_disable_timestamp() work

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2017 10:31:35 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> Dmitry reported a warning [1] showing that we were calling 
> net_disable_timestamp() -> static_key_slow_dec() from a non
> process context.
> 
> Grabbing a mutex while holding a spinlock or rcu_read_lock()
> is not allowed.
> 
> As Cong suggested, we now use a work queue.
> 
> It is possible netstamp_clear() exits while netstamp_needed_deferred
> is not zero, but it is probably not worth trying to do better than that.
> 
> netstamp_needed_deferred atomic tracks the exact number of deferred
> decrements.
 ...
> Fixes: b90e5794c5bd ("net: dont call jump_label_dec from irq context")
> Suggested-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
> Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Eric.