netdev - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 11/13] bridge/br_mdb: Apply rcu_access

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Message-Id: <1380072916-31557-11-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:35:14 -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,
	peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com,
	edumazet@...gle.com, darren@...art.com, fweisbec@...il.com,
	sbw@....edu, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 11/13] bridge/br_mdb: 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
__br_mdb_del() is legitimate: They 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 these false positives by laundering the
pointers 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: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
---
 net/bridge/br_mdb.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_mdb.c b/net/bridge/br_mdb.c
index 85a09bb..3184c88 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_mdb.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_mdb.c
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ static int __br_mdb_del(struct net_bridge *br, struct br_mdb_entry *entry)
 		if (p->port->state == BR_STATE_DISABLED)
 			goto unlock;
 
-		rcu_assign_pointer(*pp, p->next);
+		rcu_assign_pointer(*pp, rcu_access_pointer(p->next));
 		hlist_del_init(&p->mglist);
 		del_timer(&p->timer);
 		call_rcu_bh(&p->rcu, br_multicast_free_pg);
-- 
1.8.1.5

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