linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/urgent 3/3] idr: fix RCU lockdep splat in idr_get

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Message-Id: <1276640983-14641-3-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:29:43 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca,
	josh@...htriplett.org, dvhltc@...ibm.com, niv@...ibm.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, dhowells@...hat.com,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/urgent 3/3] idr: fix RCU lockdep splat in idr_get_next()

Convert to rcu_dereference_raw() given that many callers may have many
different locking models.

Located-by: Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com>
Tested-by: Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 lib/idr.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/idr.c b/lib/idr.c
index c1a2069..7f1a4f0 100644
--- a/lib/idr.c
+++ b/lib/idr.c
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ void *idr_get_next(struct idr *idp, int *nextidp)
 	/* find first ent */
 	n = idp->layers * IDR_BITS;
 	max = 1 << n;
-	p = rcu_dereference(idp->top);
+	p = rcu_dereference_raw(idp->top);
 	if (!p)
 		return NULL;
 
@@ -610,7 +610,7 @@ void *idr_get_next(struct idr *idp, int *nextidp)
 		while (n > 0 && p) {
 			n -= IDR_BITS;
 			*paa++ = p;
-			p = rcu_dereference(p->ary[(id >> n) & IDR_MASK]);
+			p = rcu_dereference_raw(p->ary[(id >> n) & IDR_MASK]);
 		}
 
 		if (p) {
-- 
1.7.0.6

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