netdev - Re: [PATCH] tipc: fix suspicious RCU usage

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Message-Id: <20160615.214748.872094820538617710.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 15 Jun 2016 21:47:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ying.xue@...driver.com
Cc:	jon.maloy@...csson.com, erik.hugne@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tipc: fix suspicious RCU usage

From: Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2016 14:10:57 +0800

> When run tipcTS&tipcTC test suite, the following complaint appears:
 ...
> The warning appears as rtnl_dereference() is wrongly used in
> tipc_l2_send_msg() under RCU read lock protection. Instead the proper
> usage should be that rcu_dereference_rtnl() is called here.
> 
> Fixes: 5b7066c3dd24 ("tipc: stricter filtering of packets in bearer layer")
> Acked-by: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy@...csson.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@...driver.com>

Applied.