netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] net_sched: remove BH blocking in eight actions

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Message-ID: <20250828152525.GQ10519@horms.kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:25:25 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>,
	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>, Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] net_sched: remove BH blocking in eight
 actions

On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 12:53:46PM +0000, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Followup of f45b45cbfae3 ("Merge branch
> 'net_sched-act-extend-rcu-use-in-dump-methods'")
> 
> We never grab tcf_lock from BH context in these modules:
> 
>  act_connmark
>  act_csum
>  act_ct
>  act_ctinfo
>  act_mpls
>  act_nat
>  act_pedit
>  act_skbedit
> 
> No longer block BH when acquiring tcf_lock from init functions.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

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