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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org
Cc: paulmck@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	joel@joelfernandes.org,
	linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH 2/4] net: mac80211: scan.c: Fix RCU list related warnings.
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 11:21:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8d6fd8bfa0fb66f8ee4bfd34738a349bb1b7ee59.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200409082849.27372-1-madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com> (sfid-20200409_102909_206741_272D703E)

On Thu, 2020-04-09 at 13:58 +0530, madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com>
> 
> This patch fixes the following warning:
> 
> WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
> [   84.530619] 5.6.0+ #4 Not tainted
> [   84.530637] -----------------------------
> [   84.530658] net/mac80211/scan.c:454 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!!
> 
> As local->mtx is held in __ieee80211_scan_completed()

Yeah, but is that really the right lock? I think it should be RTNL or
iflist_mtx for the interface list.

(Not that this is necessarily a good idea - we perhaps should clean up
and significantly reduce the number of locks used here.)

johannes

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-09  8:28 [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH 2/4] net: mac80211: scan.c: Fix RCU list related warnings madhuparnabhowmik10
2020-04-24  9:21 ` Johannes Berg [this message]

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