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SubjectRe: [PATCH] RCU: don't turn off lockdep when find suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 09:27:44PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:35:10AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> >
> > > Eric Dumazet traced these down to a commit from Eric Biederman.
> > >
> > > If I don't hear from Eric Biederman in a few days, I will attempt a
> > > patch, but it would be more likely to be correct coming from someone
> > > with a better understanding of the code. ;-)
> >
> > I already replied.
> >
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/21/420
>
> You did indeed!!! This experience is giving me an even better appreciation
> of the maintainers' ability to keep all their patches straight!
>
> I will put together something based on your suggestion.

How about the following?

Thanx, Paul

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commit 85fa42bd568ab99c375f018761ae6345249942cd
Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon Apr 26 21:40:05 2010 -0700

net: suppress RCU lockdep false positive in twsk_net()

Calls to twsk_net() are in some cases protected by reference counting
as an alternative to RCU protection. Cases covered by reference counts
include __inet_twsk_kill(), inet_twsk_free(), inet_twdr_do_twkill_work(),
inet_twdr_twcal_tick(), and tcp_timewait_state_process(). RCU is used
by inet_twsk_purge(). Locking is used by established_get_first()
and established_get_next(). Finally, __inet_twsk_hashdance() is an
initialization case.

It appears to be non-trivial to locate the appropriate locks and
reference counts from within twsk_net(), so used rcu_dereference_raw().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

diff --git a/include/net/inet_timewait_sock.h b/include/net/inet_timewait_sock.h
index 79f67ea..a066fdd 100644
--- a/include/net/inet_timewait_sock.h
+++ b/include/net/inet_timewait_sock.h
@@ -224,7 +224,9 @@ static inline
struct net *twsk_net(const struct inet_timewait_sock *twsk)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS
- return rcu_dereference(twsk->tw_net);
+ return rcu_dereference_raw(twsk->tw_net); /* protected by locking, */
+ /* reference counting, */
+ /* initialization, or RCU. */
#else
return &init_net;
#endif

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