From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx> In the effort of making .ndo_get_stats64 be able to sleep, we need to ensure the callers of dev_get_stats do not use atomic context. I need to preface this by saying that I have no idea why netstat_show takes the dev_base_lock rwlock. Two things can be observed: (a) it does not appear to be due to dev_isalive requiring it for some reason, because broadcast_show() also calls dev_isalive() and has had no problem existing since the beginning of git. (b) the dev_get_stats function definitely does not need dev_base_lock protection either. In fact, holding the dev_base_lock is the entire problem here, because we want to make dev_get_stats sleepable, and holding a rwlock gives us atomic context. So since no protection seems to be necessary, just run unlocked while retrieving the /sys/class/net/eth0/statistics/* values. Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx> --- net/core/net-sysfs.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c index 999b70c59761..0782a476b424 100644 --- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c +++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c @@ -585,14 +585,13 @@ static ssize_t netstat_show(const struct device *d, WARN_ON(offset > sizeof(struct rtnl_link_stats64) || offset % sizeof(u64) != 0); - read_lock(&dev_base_lock); if (dev_isalive(dev)) { struct rtnl_link_stats64 temp; const struct rtnl_link_stats64 *stats = dev_get_stats(dev, &temp); ret = sprintf(buf, fmt_u64, *(u64 *)(((u8 *)stats) + offset)); } - read_unlock(&dev_base_lock); + return ret; } -- 2.25.1