netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net/sched: act_police: add missing spinlock initialization

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Date:   Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:02:53 -0800
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Davide Caratti <dcaratti@...hat.com>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/sched: act_police: add missing spinlock initialization

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 9:24 AM Davide Caratti <dcaratti@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> commit f2cbd4852820 ("net/sched: act_police: fix race condition on state
> variables") introduces a new spinlock, but forgets its initialization.
> Ensure that tcf_police_init() initializes 'tcfp_lock' every time a 'police'
> action is newly created, to avoid the following lockdep splat:

Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>