netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: caif: Add lockdep expression to RCU traversal primitive

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Date:   Wed, 11 Mar 2020 22:55:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     frextrite@...il.com
Cc:     kuba@...nel.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
        rfontana@...hat.com, allison@...utok.net, pabeni@...hat.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        joel@...lfernandes.org, madhuparnabhowmik10@...il.com,
        paulmck@...nel.org, lkp@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: caif: Add lockdep expression to RCU traversal
 primitive

From: Amol Grover <frextrite@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:04:20 +0530

> caifdevs->list is traversed using list_for_each_entry_rcu()
> outside an RCU read-side critical section but under the
> protection of rtnl_mutex. Hence, add the corresponding lockdep
> expression to silence the following false-positive warning:
> 
> [   10.868467] =============================
> [   10.869082] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
> [   10.869817] 5.6.0-rc1-00177-g06ec0a154aae4 #1 Not tainted
> [   10.870804] -----------------------------
> [   10.871557] net/caif/caif_dev.c:115 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!!
> 
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Amol Grover <frextrite@...il.com>

Applied, thank you.