netdev - Re: [PATCH] Fix suspicious RCU usage warning

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Message-ID: <20200514070409.GA3174@madhuparna-HP-Notebook>
Date:   Thu, 14 May 2020 12:34:09 +0530
From:   Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     madhuparnabhowmik10@...il.com, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru,
        yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kuba@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
        frextrite@...il.com, joel@...lfernandes.org, paulmck@...nel.org,
        cai@....pw
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix suspicious RCU usage warning

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 12:00:10PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: madhuparnabhowmik10@...il.com
> Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 11:46:10 +0530
> 
> > From: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@...il.com>
> > 
> > This patch fixes the following warning:
> > 
> > =============================
> > WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
> > 5.7.0-rc4-next-20200507-syzkaller #0 Not tainted
> > -----------------------------
> > net/ipv6/ip6mr.c:124 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!!
> > 
> > ipmr_new_table() returns an existing table, but there is no table at
> > init. Therefore the condition: either holding rtnl or the list is empty
> > is used.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@...il.com>
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@...il.com>
> 
> Please only provide one signoff line.
> 
> Please provide a proper Fixes: tag for this bug fix.
> 
> And finally, please make your Subject line more appropriate.  It must
> first state the target tree inside of the "[PATCH]" area, the two choices
> are "[PATCH net]" and "[PATCH net-next]" and it depends upon which tree
> this patch is targetting.
> 
> Then your Subject line should also be more descriptive about exactly the
> subsystem and area the change is being made to, for this change for
> example you could use something like:
> 
> 	ipv6: Fix suspicious RCU usage warning in ip6mr.
> 
> Also, obviously, there are also syzkaller tags you can add to the
> commit message as well.
Sorry for this malformed patch, I have sent a patch with all these
corrections.

Thank you,
Madhuparna