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Message-ID: <db40353c-bee5-491c-b301-f994258ed0f9@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 27 Oct 2023 12:11:47 +0530
From:   Abhinav Singh <singhabhinav9051571833@...il.com>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, brauner@...nel.org, surenb@...gle.com,
        mst@...hat.com, michael.christie@...cle.com,
        mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com, mjguzik@...il.com,
        npiggin@...il.com, shakeelb@...gle.com, peterz@...radead.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Fixing directly deferencing a __rcu pointer warning

On 10/27/23 12:07, Abhinav Singh wrote:
> This patch fixes the warning about directly dereferencing a pointer
> tagged with __rcu annotation.
> 
> Dereferencing the pointers tagged with __rcu directly should
> always be avoided according to the docs. There is a rcu helper
> functions rcu_dereference(...) to use when dereferencing a __rcu
> pointer. This functions returns the non __rcu tagged pointer which
> can be dereferenced just like a normal pointers.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Abhinav Singh <singhabhinav9051571833@...il.com>
> ---
>   kernel/fork.c | 8 ++++----
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> index 10917c3e1f03..e78649974669 100644
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -2369,7 +2369,7 @@ __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
>   
>   	retval = -EAGAIN;
>   	if (is_rlimit_overlimit(task_ucounts(p), UCOUNT_RLIMIT_NPROC, rlimit(RLIMIT_NPROC))) {
> -		if (p->real_cred->user != INIT_USER &&
> +		if (rcu_dereference(p->real_cred)->user != INIT_USER &&
>   		    !capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE) && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
>   			goto bad_fork_cleanup_count;
>   	}
> @@ -2690,9 +2690,9 @@ __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
>   			 * tasklist_lock with adding child to the process tree
>   			 * for propagate_has_child_subreaper optimization.
>   			 */
> -			p->signal->has_child_subreaper = p->real_parent->signal->has_child_subreaper ||
> -							 p->real_parent->signal->is_child_subreaper;
> -			list_add_tail(&p->sibling, &p->real_parent->children);
> +			p->signal->has_child_subreaper = rcu_dereference(p->real_parent)->signal->has_child_subreaper ||
> +							rcu_dereference(p->real_parent)->signal->is_child_subreaper;
> +			list_add_tail(&p->sibling, &rcu_dereference(p->real_parent)->children);
>   			list_add_tail_rcu(&p->tasks, &init_task.tasks);
>   			attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_TGID);
>   			attach_pid(p, PIDTYPE_PGID);

For this particular file I have resolved the rcu pointer dereferencing 
issue and I have tested the above by using qemu using this command
qemu-system-x86_64 \
	-m 2G \
	-smp 2 \
	-kernel /home/abhinav/linux_work/linux/arch/x86/boot/bzImage \
	-append "console=ttyS0 root=/dev/sda earlyprintk=serial net.ifnames=0" \
	-drive file=/home/abhinav/linux_work/boot_images/bullseye.img,format=raw \
	-net user,host=10.0.2.10,hostfwd=tcp:127.0.0.1:10021-:22 \
	-net nic,model=e1000 \
	-enable-kvm \
	-nographic \
	-pidfile vm.pid \
	2>&1 | tee vm.log
it booted without any issues.