[PATCH net v2 1/3] netvsc: fix rcu dereference warning from ethtool
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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: 2017-06-07 22:53:47
Subsystem:
hyper-v/azure core and drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Haiyang Zhang, Wei Liu, Dexuan Cui, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
The ethtool info command calls the netvsc get_sset_count with RTNL but not with RCU. Which causes warning: drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c:1010 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage! Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <redacted> --- drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
index 4421a6d00375..d93e4da25fd2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c@@ -1028,7 +1028,7 @@ static const struct { static int netvsc_get_sset_count(struct net_device *dev, int string_set) { struct net_device_context *ndc = netdev_priv(dev); - struct netvsc_device *nvdev = rcu_dereference(ndc->nvdev); + struct netvsc_device *nvdev = rtnl_dereference(ndc->nvdev); if (!nvdev) return -ENODEV;
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2.11.0