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

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Message-ID: <20200525162206.GB375786@debian-buster-darwi.lab.linutronix.de>
Date:   Mon, 25 May 2020 18:22:07 +0200
From:   "Ahmed S. Darwish" <a.darwish@...utronix.de>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     kbuild@...ts.01.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        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>,
        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

On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 05:37:07PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
...
>
> smatch warnings:
> net/core/dev.c:953 netdev_get_name() warn: inconsistent returns 'devnet_rename_sem'.
>
...
>
> 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;
>                                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Oh, shouldn't have missed that. Will fix in v2.

Thanks,