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Subject[PATCH tip/core/rcu 03/14] bridge: Apply ACCESS_ONCE() to avoid sparse false positive
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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.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 uses in
br_multicast_del_pg() and br_multicast_new_port_group() are legitimate:
They are 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 ACCESS_ONCE() as suggested by Eric Dumazet and Josh
Triplett.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
---
net/bridge/br_multicast.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
index d1c578630678..bcc4bbc16498 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_multicast.c
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ static void br_multicast_del_pg(struct net_bridge *br,
if (p != pg)
continue;

- rcu_assign_pointer(*pp, p->next);
+ ACCESS_ONCE(*pp) = p->next; /* OK: Both --rcu and visible. */
hlist_del_init(&p->mglist);
del_timer(&p->timer);
call_rcu_bh(&p->rcu, br_multicast_free_pg);
@@ -646,7 +646,7 @@ struct net_bridge_port_group *br_multicast_new_port_group(
p->addr = *group;
p->port = port;
p->state = state;
- rcu_assign_pointer(p->next, next);
+ ACCESS_ONCE(p->next) = next; /* OK: Both --rcu and visible. */
hlist_add_head(&p->mglist, &port->mglist);
setup_timer(&p->timer, br_multicast_port_group_expired,
(unsigned long)p);
--
1.8.1.5


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