Re: [PATCH] cfg80211: Pass lockdep expression to RCU lists

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Wed Feb 19 2020 - 16:30:02 EST


On Wed, 2020-02-19 at 22:27 +0100, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
> On 2/19/2020 10:13 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Wed, 2020-02-19 at 14:41 +0530, Amol Grover wrote:
> > >
> > > - WARN_ON_ONCE(!rcu_read_lock_held() && !lockdep_rtnl_is_held());
> > > -
> > > - list_for_each_entry_rcu(pos, &rdev->sched_scan_req_list, list) {
> > > + list_for_each_entry_rcu(pos, &rdev->sched_scan_req_list, list,
> > > + lockdep_rtnl_is_held()) {
> >
> > Huh, I didn't even know you _could_ do that :)
>
> Me neither ;-). Above you are removing the WARN_ON_ONCE() entirely.
> Would it not be good to keep the WARN_ON_ONCE() with only the
> !rcu_read_lock_held() check.

Not needed, the macro expansion will already contain
rcu_read_lock_any_held() just like in all the other cases where you pass
a lockdep condition to RCU helpers.

johannes