From: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> commit bc3c8fe3c79bcdae4d90e3726054fac5cca8ac32 upstream. WARNING: suspicious RCU usage 5.2.0-rc2-00605-g2638eb8b50cfc #1 Not tainted drivers/net/plip/plip.c:1110 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage! plip_open is called with RTNL held, switch to the correct helper. Fixes: 2638eb8b50cf ("net: ipv4: provide __rcu annotation for ifa_list") Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220807115304.13257-1-fw@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/plip/plip.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/plip/plip.c +++ b/drivers/net/plip/plip.c @@ -1111,7 +1111,7 @@ plip_open(struct net_device *dev) /* Any address will do - we take the first. We already have the first two bytes filled with 0xfc, from plip_init_dev(). */ - const struct in_ifaddr *ifa = rcu_dereference(in_dev->ifa_list); + const struct in_ifaddr *ifa = rtnl_dereference(in_dev->ifa_list); if (ifa != NULL) { dev_addr_mod(dev, 2, &ifa->ifa_local, 4); }