Re: [PATCH net] net: airoha: add RCU lock around dev_fill_forward_path

From: Lorenzo Bianconi

Date: Thu Mar 19 2026 - 05:11:01 EST


> Since 0417adf367a0 ("ppp: fix race conditions in ppp_fill_forward_path")
> dev_fill_forward_path() should be called with RCU read lock held. This
> fix was applied to net, while the Airoha flowtable commit was applied to
> net-next, so it hadn't been an issue until net was merged into net-next.
>
> Fixes: a9af709fda7e ("Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net")
> Signed-off-by: Qingfang Deng <dqfext@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Lorenzo Bianconi <lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_ppe.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_ppe.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_ppe.c
> index ec5ce41dad80..02deb739a1c7 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_ppe.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/airoha/airoha_ppe.c
> @@ -227,7 +227,9 @@ static int airoha_ppe_get_wdma_info(struct net_device *dev, const u8 *addr,
> if (!dev)
> return -ENODEV;
>
> + rcu_read_lock();
> err = dev_fill_forward_path(dev, addr, &stack);
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> if (err)
> return err;
>
> --
> 2.43.0
>

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