netdev - Re: [PATCH v1 01/25] net: core: device_rename: Use rwsem instead of a seqcount

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Date:   Wed, 20 May 2020 17:37:07 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     kbuild@...ts.01.org, "Ahmed S. Darwish" <a.darwish@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc:     lkp@...el.com, kbuild-all@...ts.01.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        "Sebastian A. Siewior" <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Ahmed S. Darwish" <a.darwish@...utronix.de>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 01/25] net: core: device_rename: Use rwsem instead of
 a seqcount

Hi "Ahmed,

Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve:

[auto build test WARNING on tip/locking/core]
[also build test WARNING on nf-next/master nf/master tip/timers/core linus/master v5.7-rc6 next-20200519]
[if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help
improve the system. BTW, we also suggest to use '--base' option to specify the
base tree in git format-patch, please see https://stackoverflow.com/a/37406982]

url:    https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Ahmed-S-Darwish/seqlock-Extend-seqcount-API-with-associated-locks/20200520-055145
base:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git 23b5ae2e8e1326c91b5dfdbb6ebcd5a6820074ae
config: x86_64-defconfig (attached as .config)

If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@...el.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

smatch warnings:
net/core/dev.c:953 netdev_get_name() warn: inconsistent returns 'devnet_rename_sem'.

# https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commit/2354e271ada778bbb935d7b20113693710905cff
git remote add linux-review https://github.com/0day-ci/linux
git remote update linux-review
git checkout 2354e271ada778bbb935d7b20113693710905cff
vim +/devnet_rename_sem +953 net/core/dev.c

5dbe7c178d3f0a4 Nicolas Schichan 2013-06-26  935  int netdev_get_name(struct net *net, char *name, int ifindex)
5dbe7c178d3f0a4 Nicolas Schichan 2013-06-26  936  {
5dbe7c178d3f0a4 Nicolas Schichan 2013-06-26  937  	struct net_device *dev;
5dbe7c178d3f0a4 Nicolas Schichan 2013-06-26  938  
2354e271ada778b Ahmed S. Darwish 2020-05-19  939  	down_read(&devnet_rename_sem);
                                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

2354e271ada778b Ahmed S. Darwish 2020-05-19  940  
5dbe7c178d3f0a4 Nicolas Schichan 2013-06-26  941  	rcu_read_lock();
5dbe7c178d3f0a4 Nicolas Schichan 2013-06-26  942  	dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(net, ifindex);
5dbe7c178d3f0a4 Nicolas Schichan 2013-06-26  943  	if (!dev) {
5dbe7c178d3f0a4 Nicolas Schichan 2013-06-26  944  		rcu_read_unlock();
5dbe7c178d3f0a4 Nicolas Schichan 2013-06-26  945  		return -ENODEV;
                                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
We need to drop the new semaphore on error.

5dbe7c178d3f0a4 Nicolas Schichan 2013-06-26  946  	}
5dbe7c178d3f0a4 Nicolas Schichan 2013-06-26  947  
5dbe7c178d3f0a4 Nicolas Schichan 2013-06-26  948  	strcpy(name, dev->name);
5dbe7c178d3f0a4 Nicolas Schichan 2013-06-26  949  	rcu_read_unlock();
2354e271ada778b Ahmed S. Darwish 2020-05-19  950  
2354e271ada778b Ahmed S. Darwish 2020-05-19  951  	up_read(&devnet_rename_sem);
5dbe7c178d3f0a4 Nicolas Schichan 2013-06-26  952  
5dbe7c178d3f0a4 Nicolas Schichan 2013-06-26 @953  	return 0;
5dbe7c178d3f0a4 Nicolas Schichan 2013-06-26  954  }

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