The in_atomic macro cannot always detect atomic context. In particular, it cannot know about held spinlocks in non-preemptible kernels. Although, there is no user call bpf_link_put() with holding spinlock now. Be the safe side, we can avoid this in the feature. Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 8 ++------ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c index 178c147350f5..6347be0a5c82 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/syscall.c +++ b/kernel/bpf/syscall.c @@ -2345,12 +2345,8 @@ void bpf_link_put(struct bpf_link *link) if (!atomic64_dec_and_test(&link->refcnt)) return; - if (in_atomic()) { - INIT_WORK(&link->work, bpf_link_put_deferred); - schedule_work(&link->work); - } else { - bpf_link_free(link); - } + INIT_WORK(&link->work, bpf_link_put_deferred); + schedule_work(&link->work); } static int bpf_link_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) -- 2.20.1