netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 07/17] net: sched: protect filter_chain list with filter_chain

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Date:   Fri, 15 Feb 2019 14:35:17 -0800
From:   Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:     Vlad Buslov <vladbu@...lanox.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 07/17] net: sched: protect filter_chain list
 with filter_chain_lock mutex

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:56 AM Vlad Buslov <vladbu@...lanox.com> wrote:
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
> +static inline bool lockdep_tcf_chain_is_locked(struct tcf_chain *chain)
> +{
> +       return lockdep_is_held(&chain->filter_chain_lock);
> +}
> +#else
> +static inline bool lockdep_tcf_chain_is_locked(struct tcf_block *chain)
> +{
> +       return true;
> +}
> +#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING */
> +
> +#define tcf_chain_dereference(p, chain)                                        \
> +       rcu_dereference_protected(p, lockdep_tcf_chain_is_locked(chain))


Are you sure you need this #ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING?
rcu_dereference_protected() should already test CONFIG_PROVE_RCU.

Ditto for tcf_proto_dereference().