netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC] net/socket: use per af lockdep classes for sk queues

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Date:   Fri, 24 Feb 2017 10:14:47 -0800
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@...gle.com>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] net/socket: use per af lockdep classes for sk queues

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 5:29 AM, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com> wrote:
> Currently the sock queue's spin locks get their lockdep
> classes by the default init_spin_lock() initializer:
> all socket families get - usually, see below - a single
> class for rx, another specific class for tx, etc.
> This can lead to false positive lockdep splat, as
> reported by Andrey.
> Moreover there are two separate initialization points
> for the sock queues, one in sk_clone_lock() and one
> in sock_init_data(), so that e.g. the rx queue lock
> can get one of two possible, different classes, depending
> on the socket being cloned or not.
> This change tries to address the above, setting explicitly
> a per address family lockdep class for each queue's
> spinlock. Also, move the duplicated initialization code to a
> single location.
>
> Suggested-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>

Looks good.

Thanks for working on it!