Re: [PATCH] ipmi: fix suspicious RCU usage warning

[Breno Leitao]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 01:19:32PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On recent kernels this warning fires:
> 
> drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c:1238 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!!
> 
> This looks like a fairly simple lockdep trigger, where
> list_for_each_entry_rcu and list_for_each_entry_srcu are
> functionally identical, but the lockdep annotation in
> the former has an extra check.
> 
> That extra check is whether the RCU read lock is held,
> which is not true when the code uses srcu_read_lock.
> 
> Get rid of the warning by using the properly annotated
> list traversal macro.

Thanks for looking at this one.

There was a discussion about this issue a few years ago, with
a different approach that never landed upstream.

	https://lore.kernel.org/all/20201119123831.GH3710@xxxxxxxxxxx/#r