netdev - Re: [PATCH net] cls_u32: add missing RCU annotation.

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Date:   Fri, 02 Feb 2018 19:26:26 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     pabeni@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jhs@...atatu.com, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
        jiri@...nulli.us, john.fastabend@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] cls_u32: add missing RCU annotation.

From: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Date: Fri,  2 Feb 2018 16:02:22 +0100

> In a couple of points of the control path, n->ht_down is currently
> accessed without the required RCU annotation. The accesses are
> safe, but sparse complaints. Since we already held the
> rtnl lock, let use rtnl_dereference().
> 
> Fixes: a1b7c5fd7fe9 ("net: sched: add cls_u32 offload hooks for netdevs")
> Fixes: de5df63228fc ("net: sched: cls_u32 changes to knode must appear atomic to readers")
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.