Re: [PATCH] lan78xx: Protect runtime_auto check by #ifdef CONFIG_PM

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Sun Mar 20 2016 - 12:36:16 EST


On Sun, 2016-03-20 at 11:43 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> If CONFIG_PM=n:
>
> drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c: In function âlan78xx_get_stats64â:
> drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c:3274: error: âstruct dev_pm_infoâ has no member named âruntime_autoâ
>
> If PM is disabled, the runtime_auto flag is not available, but auto
> suspend is not enabled anyway. Hence protect the check for runtime_auto
> by #ifdef CONFIG_PM to fix this.
>
> Fixes: a59f8c5b048dc938 ("lan78xx: add ndo_get_stats64")
> Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Alternatively, we can add a dev_pm_runtime_auto_is_enabled() wrapper to
> include/linux/pm.h, which always return false if CONFIG_PM is disabled.
>
> The only other user in non-core code (drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c) has a
> big #ifdef CONFIG_PM check around all PM-related code.
>
> Thoughts?
> ---
> drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c b/drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c
> index d36d5ebf37f355f2..7b9ac47b2ecf9905 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/usb/lan78xx.c
> @@ -3271,7 +3271,9 @@ struct rtnl_link_stats64 *lan78xx_get_stats64(struct net_device *netdev,
> * periodic reading from HW will prevent from entering USB auto suspend.
> * if autosuspend is disabled, read from HW.
> */
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PM
> if (!dev->udev->dev.power.runtime_auto)
> +#endif
> lan78xx_update_stats(dev);
>
> mutex_lock(&dev->stats.access_lock);

Note that a ndo_get_stat64() handler is not allowed to sleep,
so the mutex_lock() is not wise...

Historically /proc/net/dev handler but also bonding ndo_get_stats() used
RCU or a rwlock or a spinlock.

So a complete fix would need to get rid of this mutex as well.