netdev - Re: [PATCH net 2/3] mptcp: remove unneeded lock when listing scheds

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Message-ID: <20241023122128.GT402847@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 13:21:28 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: "Matthieu Baerts (NGI0)" <matttbe@...nel.org>
Cc: mptcp@...ts.linux.dev, Mat Martineau <martineau@...nel.org>,
	Geliang Tang <geliang@...nel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Gregory Detal <gregory.detal@...il.com>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/3] mptcp: remove unneeded lock when listing scheds

On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 12:25:27PM +0200, Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) wrote:
> mptcp_get_available_schedulers() needs to iterate over the schedulers'
> list only to read the names: it doesn't modify anything there.
> 
> In this case, it is enough to hold the RCU read lock, no need to combine
> this with the associated spin lock.
> 
> Fixes: 73c900aa3660 ("mptcp: add net.mptcp.available_schedulers")
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Suggested-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Geliang Tang <geliang@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@...nel.org>

I do wonder if it would be more appropriate to route this via net-next
(without a fixes tag) rather than via net. But either way this looks good
to me.

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>

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