netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp_metrics: fix wrong lockdep annotations

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Date:	Mon, 16 Mar 2015 07:10:54 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Vagin <avagin@...allels.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp_metrics: fix wrong lockdep annotations

On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 06:58 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> Changes in tcp_metric hash table are protected by tcp_metrics_lock
> only, not by genl_mutex
> 
> Reported-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@...allels.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Fixes: 098a697b497e ("tcp_metrics: Use a single hash table for all network namespaces.")
> ---
>  net/ipv4/tcp_metrics.c |   12 ++++--------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

I'll send a v2 : We also can use deref_locked() in tcp_new() to avoid
unnecessary barrier (as they are implied in rcu_dereference())
 

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