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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2023 15:33:06 +0200
From: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>
To: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@...dia.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
CC: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] devlink: Hold devlink lock on health reporter dump
 get

On 10/5/23 14:50, Moshe Shemesh wrote:
> Devlink health dump get callback should take devlink lock as any other
> devlink callback. Otherwise, since devlink_mutex was removed, this
> callback is not protected from a race of the reporter being destroyed
> while handling the callback.
> 
> Add devlink lock to the callback and to any call for
> devlink_health_do_dump(). This should be safe as non of the drivers dump
> callback implementation takes devlink lock.
> 
> As devlink lock is added to any callback of dump, the reporter dump_lock
> is now redundant and can be removed.
> 
> Fixes: d3efc2a6a6d8 ("net: devlink: remove devlink_mutex")
> Signed-off-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@...dia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...dia.com>
> ---
> v1->v2:
> - Commit message, added why this fix is necessary and why its safe to do.
> ---
>   net/devlink/health.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++--------------
>   1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>