netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ptp: vclock: use mutex to fix "sleep on atomic" bug

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Date:   Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:13:41 -0800
From:   Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To:     Íñigo Huguet <ihuguet@...hat.com>
Cc:     yangbo.lu@....com, mlichvar@...hat.com,
        gerhard@...leder-embedded.com, habetsm.xilinx@...il.com,
        ecree.xilinx@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
        kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Yalin Li <yalli@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ptp: vclock: use mutex to fix "sleep on atomic" bug

On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 02:05:56PM -0800, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 03:30:51PM +0100, Íñigo Huguet wrote:
> > @@ -281,9 +280,10 @@ ktime_t ptp_convert_timestamp(const ktime_t *hwtstamp, int vclock_index)
> >  		if (vclock->clock->index != vclock_index)
> >  			continue;
> >  
> > -		spin_lock_irqsave(&vclock->lock, flags);
> > +		if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&vclock->lock) < 0)
> > +			break;
> 
> This is the only one that I'm not sure about.  The others are all
> called from user context.  Clean lockdep run would help.

Oh never mind.  mutex code would scream if called from wrong context.

Thanks,
Richard