[SRU][Trusty][PATCH 1/2] openvswitch: Silence RCU lockdep checks from flow lookup.
Joseph Salisbury
joseph.salisbury at canonical.com
Tue Feb 24 19:10:23 UTC 2015
From: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1408972
Flow lookup can happen either in packet processing context or userspace
context but it was annotated as requiring RCU read lock to be held. This
also allows OVS mutex to be held without causing warnings.
Reported-by: Justin Pettit <jpettit at nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf at redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 663efa3696232300a8ad3a46bb10482fc0b861cf)
Signed-off-by: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury at canonical.com>
---
net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 3 +--
net/openvswitch/datapath.h | 2 ++
net/openvswitch/flow_table.c | 2 +-
3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
index 654e058..1582faf 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c
@@ -701,8 +701,7 @@ static int ovs_flow_cmd_fill_info(struct sw_flow *flow, struct datapath *dp,
if (start) {
const struct sw_flow_actions *sf_acts;
- sf_acts = rcu_dereference_check(flow->sf_acts,
- lockdep_ovsl_is_held());
+ sf_acts = rcu_dereference_ovsl(flow->sf_acts);
err = ovs_nla_put_actions(sf_acts->actions,
sf_acts->actions_len, skb);
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.h b/net/openvswitch/datapath.h
index 4067ea4..ba13be4 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.h
+++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.h
@@ -145,6 +145,8 @@ int lockdep_ovsl_is_held(void);
#define ASSERT_OVSL() WARN_ON(unlikely(!lockdep_ovsl_is_held()))
#define ovsl_dereference(p) \
rcu_dereference_protected(p, lockdep_ovsl_is_held())
+#define rcu_dereference_ovsl(p) \
+ rcu_dereference_check(p, lockdep_ovsl_is_held())
static inline struct net *ovs_dp_get_net(struct datapath *dp)
{
diff --git a/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c b/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c
index e425427..0ddf2bc 100644
--- a/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c
+++ b/net/openvswitch/flow_table.c
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ struct sw_flow *ovs_flow_tbl_lookup(struct flow_table *tbl,
const struct sw_flow_key *key,
u32 *n_mask_hit)
{
- struct table_instance *ti = rcu_dereference(tbl->ti);
+ struct table_instance *ti = rcu_dereference_ovsl(tbl->ti);
struct sw_flow_mask *mask;
struct sw_flow *flow;
--
2.1.0
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