saw a debug splat: net/include/net/sch_generic.h:287 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0 2 locks held by kworker/2:1/710: #0: ("events"){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff8106ca1d>] #1: ((&q->work)){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff8106ca1d>] process_one_work+0x14d/0x690 Workqueue: events htb_work_func Call Trace: [<ffffffff812dc763>] dump_stack+0x85/0xc2 [<ffffffff8109fee7>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xe7/0x120 [<ffffffff814ced47>] htb_work_func+0x67/0x70
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <f...@strlen.de> --- net/sched/sch_htb.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/sched/sch_htb.c b/net/sched/sch_htb.c index d4b4218..62f9d81 100644 --- a/net/sched/sch_htb.c +++ b/net/sched/sch_htb.c @@ -1007,7 +1007,9 @@ static void htb_work_func(struct work_struct *work) struct htb_sched *q = container_of(work, struct htb_sched, work); struct Qdisc *sch = q->watchdog.qdisc; + rcu_read_lock(); __netif_schedule(qdisc_root(sch)); + rcu_read_unlock(); } static int htb_init(struct Qdisc *sch, struct nlattr *opt) -- 2.7.3