Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 094/258] nfp: add locking around representor changes

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Mon Jan 28 2019 - 12:21:49 EST


On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 08:28:25AM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 10:56:40 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 71844fac1ed459024dd2a448d63d5b28b8c87daa ]

Up until now we never needed to keep a networking locks around
representors accesses, we only accessed them when device was
reconfigured (under nfp pf->lock) or on fast path (under RCU).
Now we want to be able to iterate over all representors during
notifications, so make sure representor assignment is done
under RTNL lock.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: John Hurley <john.hurley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Sasha!

There is no need for backporting this unless 51a6588e8c08 ("nfp: add
offloads on representors") is also back ported (which is a feature).

I'll drop it. Thanks for the heads-up.

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Thanks,
Sasha