linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 125/129] ipv6: fix a lockdep splat

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Date:	Fri, 26 Feb 2016 10:21:36 +0000
From:	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 125/129] ipv6: fix a lockdep splat

3.16.7-ckt25 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

---8<------------------------------------------------------------

From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

commit 44c3d0c1c0a880354e9de5d94175742e2c7c9683 upstream.

Silence lockdep false positive about rcu_dereference() being
used in the wrong context.

First one should use rcu_dereference_protected() as we own the spinlock.

Second one should be a normal assignation, as no barrier is needed.

Fixes: 18367681a10bd ("ipv6 flowlabel: Convert np->ipv6_fl_list to RCU.")
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
index 4052694c6f2c..f40ba684d69b 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
@@ -542,12 +542,13 @@ int ipv6_flowlabel_opt(struct sock *sk, char __user *optval, int optlen)
 		}
 		spin_lock_bh(&ip6_sk_fl_lock);
 		for (sflp = &np->ipv6_fl_list;
-		     (sfl = rcu_dereference(*sflp))!=NULL;
+		     (sfl = rcu_dereference_protected(*sflp,
+						      lockdep_is_held(&ip6_sk_fl_lock))) != NULL;
 		     sflp = &sfl->next) {
 			if (sfl->fl->label == freq.flr_label) {
 				if (freq.flr_label == (np->flow_label&IPV6_FLOWLABEL_MASK))
 					np->flow_label &= ~IPV6_FLOWLABEL_MASK;
-				*sflp = rcu_dereference(sfl->next);
+				*sflp = sfl->next;
 				spin_unlock_bh(&ip6_sk_fl_lock);
 				fl_release(sfl->fl);
 				kfree_rcu(sfl, rcu);