netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] net sched act_vlan: VLAN action rewrite to use RCU lock/unlock and update

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Date:   Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:44:15 -0700
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Manish Kurup <kurup.manish@...il.com>
Cc:     Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexander Aring <aring@...atatu.com>,
        Roman Mashak <mrv@...atatu.com>,
        Manish Kurup <manish.kurup@...izon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] net sched act_vlan: VLAN action rewrite
 to use RCU lock/unlock and update

On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Manish Kurup <kurup.manish@...il.com> wrote:
>  static inline u32 tcf_vlan_action(const struct tc_action *a)
>  {
> -       return to_vlan(a)->tcfv_action;
> +       u32 tcfv_action;
> +
> +       rcu_read_lock();
> +       tcfv_action = rcu_dereference(to_vlan(a)->vlan_p)->tcfv_action;
> +       rcu_read_unlock();
> +
> +       return tcfv_action;
>  }

It seems we need rcu_read_lock_bh() rather than just rcu_read_lock()?
If so, same for other tcf_vlan_*() helpers.