netdev - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 06/13] ipv4/ip_socketglue: Apply rcu_access

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Message-Id: <1380072916-31557-6-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:35:09 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	mingo@...nel.org, laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
	josh@...htriplett.org, niv@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
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	sbw@....edu, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 06/13] ipv4/ip_socketglue: Apply rcu_access_pointer() to avoid sparse false positive

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

The sparse checking for rcu_assign_pointer() was recently upgraded
to reject non-__kernel address spaces.  This also rejects __rcu,
which is almost always the right thing to do.  However, the use in
ip_ra_control() is legitimate: It is assigning a pointer to an element
from an RCU-protected list, and all elements of this list are already
visible to caller.

This commit therefore silences this false positive by laundering the
pointer using rcu_access_pointer() as suggested by Josh Triplett.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
---
 net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
index d9c4f11..d328f15 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ int ip_ra_control(struct sock *sk, unsigned char on,
 			}
 			/* dont let ip_call_ra_chain() use sk again */
 			ra->sk = NULL;
-			rcu_assign_pointer(*rap, ra->next);
+			rcu_assign_pointer(*rap, rcu_access_pointer(ra->next));
 			spin_unlock_bh(&ip_ra_lock);
 
 			if (ra->destructor)
-- 
1.8.1.5

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