Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756725Ab3JIVaN (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Oct 2013 17:30:13 -0400 Received: from e9.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.139]:48223 "EHLO e9.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756255Ab3JIV35 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Oct 2013 17:29:57 -0400 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@kernel.org, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, darren@dvhart.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, sbw@mit.edu, "Paul E. McKenney" , "David S. Miller" , Thomas Graf , Gao feng , Stephen Hemminger , linux-decnet-user@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 05/13] decnet: Apply rcu_access_pointer() to avoid sparse false positive Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 14:29:38 -0700 Message-Id: <1381354186-16285-5-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.5 In-Reply-To: <1381354186-16285-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20131009212920.GA15413@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1381354186-16285-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-TM-AS-MML: No X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 13100921-7182-0000-0000-000008AF2AD0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2171 Lines: 55 From: "Paul E. McKenney" 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 dn_insert_route() 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 Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Thomas Graf Cc: Gao feng Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: linux-decnet-user@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org --- net/decnet/dn_route.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/decnet/dn_route.c b/net/decnet/dn_route.c index fe32388ea24f..3b1357bcfc92 100644 --- a/net/decnet/dn_route.c +++ b/net/decnet/dn_route.c @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ static int dn_insert_route(struct dn_route *rt, unsigned int hash, struct dn_rou /* Put it first */ *rthp = rth->dst.dn_next; rcu_assign_pointer(rth->dst.dn_next, - dn_rt_hash_table[hash].chain); + rcu_access_pointer(dn_rt_hash_table[hash].chain)); rcu_assign_pointer(dn_rt_hash_table[hash].chain, rth); dst_use(&rth->dst, now); @@ -358,7 +358,8 @@ static int dn_insert_route(struct dn_route *rt, unsigned int hash, struct dn_rou rthp = &rth->dst.dn_next; } - rcu_assign_pointer(rt->dst.dn_next, dn_rt_hash_table[hash].chain); + rcu_assign_pointer(rt->dst.dn_next, + rcu_access_pointer(dn_rt_hash_table[hash].chain)); rcu_assign_pointer(dn_rt_hash_table[hash].chain, rt); dst_use(&rt->dst, now); -- 1.8.1.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/