netdev - Re: 4.12-RC2 BUG: scheduling while atomic: irq/47-iwlwifi

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Message-ID: <ff02b9a1-94e1-8bbd-c48e-c2d05b0b75ec@broadcom.com>
Date:   Tue, 23 May 2017 09:24:49 +0200
From:   Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@...adcom.com>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        Sander Eikelenboom <linux@...elenboom.it>
Cc:     linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 4.12-RC2 BUG: scheduling while atomic: irq/47-iwlwifi



On 23-5-2017 9:22, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-05-23 at 09:19 +0200, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
>>
>>> 	WARN_ON_ONCE(!rcu_read_lock_held() && !lockdep_rtnl_is_held());
>>
>> Thought about something like this after sending the email. So there
>> are two call sites. One for scheduled scan results notification and
>> one in scheduled scan stop scenario. So for the latter it is not
>> needed to use the rcu_read_lock() as it should have RTNL lock hence
>> the two checks above?
> 
> Right. The latter can't even really use rcu_read_lock() since it also
> wants to modify the list, and that's not sufficient protection for
> modifying.

Hence the name ;-)

Regards,
Arend