netdev - Re: Suspicious RCU usage in bridge with Linux v4.0-9362-g1fc149933fd4

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Date:	Thu, 21 May 2015 15:22:16 -0400
From:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dominick Grift <dac.override@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Suspicious RCU usage in bridge with Linux v4.0-9362-g1fc149933fd4

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Dominick Grift <dac.override@...il.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 07:53:06AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>
>> Hi Dominick
>>
>> Have you tried this patch I sent last monday ?
>>
>> I will submit formally when I get a test result.
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Eric,
>
> I have tested the below patch and everything is in order!
>
> Thank you!
>
>>
>> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_stp_timer.c b/net/bridge/br_stp_timer.c
>> index 4fcaa67750fda845ad0a180332c4cd96a9524086..7caf7fae2d5b8aa369b924e1c87a47c343fb8954 100644
>> --- a/net/bridge/br_stp_timer.c
>> +++ b/net/bridge/br_stp_timer.c
>> @@ -97,7 +97,9 @@ static void br_forward_delay_timer_expired(unsigned long arg)
>>               netif_carrier_on(br->dev);
>>       }
>>       br_log_state(p);
>> +     rcu_read_lock();
>>       br_ifinfo_notify(RTM_NEWLINK, p);
>> +     rcu_read_unlock();
>>       spin_unlock(&br->lock);
>>  }
>>
>>
>>

I'm still seeing this with Linus' tree as of yesterday.  Is this
queued anywhere for 4.1?

josh
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