Enabling CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST with its dependence CONFIG_RCU_EXPERT creates this splat when an MPTCP socket is created: ============================= WARNING: suspicious RCU usage 6.12.0-rc2+ #11 Not tainted ----------------------------- net/mptcp/sched.c:44 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1 no locks held by mptcp_connect/176. stack backtrace: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 176 Comm: mptcp_connect Not tainted 6.12.0-rc2+ #11 Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:123) lockdep_rcu_suspicious (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6822) mptcp_sched_find (net/mptcp/sched.c:44 (discriminator 7)) mptcp_init_sock (net/mptcp/protocol.c:2867 (discriminator 1)) ? sock_init_data_uid (arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:28) inet_create.part.0.constprop.0 (net/ipv4/af_inet.c:386) ? __sock_create (include/linux/rcupdate.h:347 (discriminator 1)) __sock_create (net/socket.c:1576) __sys_socket (net/socket.c:1671) ? __pfx___sys_socket (net/socket.c:1712) ? do_user_addr_fault (arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1419 (discriminator 1)) __x64_sys_socket (net/socket.c:1728) do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 (discriminator 1)) entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130) That's because when the socket is initialised, rcu_read_lock() is not used despite the explicit comment written above the declaration of mptcp_sched_find() in sched.c. Adding the missing lock/unlock avoids the warning. Fixes: 1730b2b2c5a5 ("mptcp: add sched in mptcp_sock") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Closes: https://github.com/multipath-tcp/mptcp_net-next/issues/523 Reviewed-by: Geliang Tang <geliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/mptcp/protocol.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/mptcp/protocol.c b/net/mptcp/protocol.c index 6d0e201c3eb26aa6ca0ff27e5a65cb6f911012f2..d263091659e076587bc3406dfdcb4409adb3247e 100644 --- a/net/mptcp/protocol.c +++ b/net/mptcp/protocol.c @@ -2864,8 +2864,10 @@ static int mptcp_init_sock(struct sock *sk) if (unlikely(!net->mib.mptcp_statistics) && !mptcp_mib_alloc(net)) return -ENOMEM; + rcu_read_lock(); ret = mptcp_init_sched(mptcp_sk(sk), mptcp_sched_find(mptcp_get_scheduler(net))); + rcu_read_unlock(); if (ret) return ret; -- 2.45.2