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Merge branch 'netpoll-use-rcu-primitives-for-npinfo-pointer-access'
Breno Leitao says:
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netpoll: Use RCU primitives for npinfo pointer access
The net_device->npinfo pointer is marked with __rcu, indicating it requires
proper RCU access primitives:
struct net_device {
...
struct netpoll_info __rcu *npinfo;
...
};
Direct access to this pointer can lead to issues such as:
- Compiler incorrectly caching/reusing stale pointer values
- Missing memory ordering guarantees
- Non-atomic pointer loads
Replace direct NULL checks of npinfo with rcu_access_pointer(),
which provides the necessary memory ordering guarantees without the
overhead of a full RCU dereference, since we only need to verify
if the pointer is NULL.
In both cases, the RCU read lock is not held when the function is being
called. I checked that by using lockdep_assert_in_rcu_read_lock(), and
seeing the warning on both cases.
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Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241118-netpoll_rcu-v1-0-a1888dcb4a02@debian.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2 files changed
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