netdev - [PATCH net] ipvlan: do not use cond_resched_rcu() in ipvlan_process

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Date:   Mon,  9 Mar 2020 18:22:58 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] ipvlan: do not use cond_resched_rcu() in ipvlan_process_multicast()

Commit e18b353f102e ("ipvlan: add cond_resched_rcu() while
processing muticast backlog") added a cond_resched_rcu() in a loop
using rcu protection to iterate over slaves.

This is breaking rcu rules, so lets instead use cond_resched()
at a point we can reschedule

Fixes: e18b353f102e ("ipvlan: add cond_resched_rcu() while processing muticast backlog")
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@...gle.com>
---
 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c b/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c
index 5759e91dec7105cb6d27ce8b4e47eae26f711ad5..8801d093135c3e72ca22643a8fbc7bf896727e4b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_core.c
@@ -277,7 +277,6 @@ void ipvlan_process_multicast(struct work_struct *work)
 			}
 			ipvlan_count_rx(ipvlan, len, ret == NET_RX_SUCCESS, true);
 			local_bh_enable();
-			cond_resched_rcu();
 		}
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 
@@ -294,6 +293,7 @@ void ipvlan_process_multicast(struct work_struct *work)
 		}
 		if (dev)
 			dev_put(dev);
+		cond_resched();
 	}
 }
 
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