Re: [PATCH net 4/4] tcp: various missing rcu_read_lock around __sk_dst_get
From: Alexei Starovoitov <hidden>
Date: 2016-04-01 04:04:50
From: Alexei Starovoitov <hidden>
Date: 2016-04-01 04:04:50
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 08:03:38PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
On Thu, 2016-03-31 at 18:45 -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:quoted
Eric, what's your take on Hannes's patch 2 ? Is it more accurate to ask lockdep to check for actual lock or lockdep can rely on owned flag? Potentially there could be races between setting the flag and actual lock... but that code is contained, so unlikely. Will we find the real issues with this 'stronger' check or just spend a ton of time adapting to new model like your other patch for release_sock and whatever may need to come next...More precise lockdep checks are certainly good, I only objected to 4/4 trying to work around another bug. But why do we rush for 'net' tree ? This looks net-next material to me. Locking changes are often subtle, lets take the time to do them properly.
completely agree. I think only first patch belongs in net. Everything else is net-next material.