Hi Linux hackers !

I'm reading some code in net/core/dev.c and something puzzles me : somewhere in __dev_queue_xmit, we have :
        int cpu = smp_processor_id(); /* ok because BHs are off */

and, indeed, a few lines up there is :
    /* Disable soft irqs for various locks below. Also
     * stops preemption for RCU.
     */
    rcu_read_lock_bh();

Now I'm wondering : is this really ok ?
From what I understand, this code can very well run in user context, with hard IRQs ON, and in fact it should, according to the following comment :

 *      When calling this method, interrupts MUST be enabled.  This is because
 *      the BH enable code must have IRQs enabled so that it will not deadlock.
 *          --BLG

Then I guess it could be preempted at any time, especially with aggressive versions of preemptions ?
And if so, are we not at risk that our thread is migrated to an other CPU just after smp_processor_id returned ?

Cheers,

V Ray