netdev - [PATCH v3 net-next 04/12] net: sysfs: don't hold dev_base

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Message-Id: <20210107094951.1772183-5-olteanv@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu,  7 Jan 2021 11:49:43 +0200
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        George McCollister <george.mccollister@...il.com>,
        Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>,
        Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@...il.com>,
        Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...il.com>,
        Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Taehee Yoo <ap420073@...il.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>, Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Subject: [PATCH v3 net-next 04/12] net: sysfs: don't hold dev_base_lock while retrieving device statistics

From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>

In the effort of making .ndo_get_stats64 be able to sleep, we need to
ensure the callers of dev_get_stats do not use atomic context.

I need to preface this by saying that I have no idea why netstat_show
takes the dev_base_lock rwlock. Two things can be observed:
(a) it does not appear to be due to dev_isalive requiring it for some
    reason, because broadcast_show() also calls dev_isalive() and has
    had no problem existing since the beginning of git.
(b) the dev_get_stats function definitely does not need dev_base_lock
    protection either. In fact, holding the dev_base_lock is the entire
    problem here, because we want to make dev_get_stats sleepable, and
    holding a rwlock gives us atomic context.

So since no protection seems to be necessary, just run unlocked while
retrieving the /sys/class/net/eth0/statistics/* values.

Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
---
Changes in v3:
None.

Changes in v2:
None.

 net/core/net-sysfs.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index daf502c13d6d..8604183678fc 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -585,14 +585,13 @@ static ssize_t netstat_show(const struct device *d,
 	WARN_ON(offset > sizeof(struct rtnl_link_stats64) ||
 		offset % sizeof(u64) != 0);
 
-	read_lock(&dev_base_lock);
 	if (dev_isalive(dev)) {
 		struct rtnl_link_stats64 temp;
 		const struct rtnl_link_stats64 *stats = dev_get_stats(dev, &temp);
 
 		ret = sprintf(buf, fmt_u64, *(u64 *)(((u8 *)stats) + offset));
 	}
-	read_unlock(&dev_base_lock);
+
 	return ret;
 }
 
-- 
2.25.1