On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 08:45:39PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On 2018-05-04 20:32:49 [+0200], Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 07:51:44PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > > > From: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-ma...@linutronix.de> > > > > > > The warning in ieee802154_rx() and ieee80211_rx_napi() is there to ensure > > > the softirq context for the subsequent netif_receive_skb() call. > > > > That's not in fact what it does though; so while that might indeed be > > the intent that's not what it does. > > It was introduced in commit d20ef63d3246 ("mac80211: document > ieee80211_rx() context requirement"): > > mac80211: document ieee80211_rx() context requirement > > ieee80211_rx() must be called with softirqs disabled
softirqs disabled, ack that is exactly what it checks. But afaict the assertion you introduced tests that we are _in_ softirq context, which is not the same.