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SubjectRe: netconsole warning in 4.19.0-rc7
On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 11:40:47PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:

> > This is exactly what I mentioned in my review here:
> > https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=153816136624679&w=2
> >
> > "But irq is disabled here, so not sure if rcu_read_lock_bh()
> > could cause trouble... "
>
> Not sure why this didn't show up for me when I was developing that
> patch, but I can now reproduce this. The patch below fixes it for
> me, but I'm not sure if there are still any side-effects.
> There's also a missed unlock in the error path.

I took another look at that error path. Turns out this is all we need I
think..


diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c
index de1d1ba92f2d..f9322d5db899 100644
--- a/net/core/netpoll.c
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.c
@@ -318,6 +318,7 @@ void netpoll_send_skb_on_dev(struct netpoll *np, struct sk_buff *skb,
npinfo = rcu_dereference_bh(np->dev->npinfo);
if (!npinfo || !netif_running(dev) || !netif_device_present(dev)) {
dev_kfree_skb_irq(skb);
+ rcu_read_unlock_bh();
return;
}

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