From a77cb6a8676672ee08c9f1feff4215575e06357b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:30:44 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] srcu: Fix warning to permit SRCU-fast readers in NMI handlers SRCU-fast is designed to be used in NMI handlers, even going so far as to use atomic operations for architectures supporting NMIs but not providing NMI-safe per-CPU atomic operations. However, the WARN_ON_ONCE() in __srcu_check_read_flavor() complains if SRCU-fast is used in an NMI handler. This commit therefore modifies that WARN_ON_ONCE() to avoid such complaints. Reported-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Tested-by: Steven Rostedt Cc: Andrii Nakryiko Cc: Boqun Feng Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/8232efe8-a7a3-446c-af0b-19f9b523b4f7@paulmck-laptop Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) --- kernel/rcu/srcutree.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c index ea3f128de06fb..c4a0a93e8da4b 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c @@ -789,7 +789,8 @@ void __srcu_check_read_flavor(struct srcu_struct *ssp, int read_flavor) struct srcu_data *sdp; /* NMI-unsafe use in NMI is a bad sign, as is multi-bit read_flavor values. */ - WARN_ON_ONCE((read_flavor != SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_NMI) && in_nmi()); + WARN_ON_ONCE(read_flavor != SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_NMI && + read_flavor != SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_FAST && in_nmi()); WARN_ON_ONCE(read_flavor & (read_flavor - 1)); sdp = raw_cpu_ptr(ssp->sda); -- 2.47.3