From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754362Ab3KPAlq (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Nov 2013 19:41:46 -0500 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.150]:41087 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754832Ab3KPAk1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Nov 2013 19:40:27 -0500 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" , Stephen Hemminger , "David S. Miller" , bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 11/14] bonding/bond_main: Apply ACCESS_ONCE() to avoid sparse false positive Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 16:40:14 -0800 Message-Id: <1384562417-817-11-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.5 In-Reply-To: <1384562417-817-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20131116003946.GA316@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1384562417-817-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 13111600-0928-0000-0000-000003BD1888 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 uses in bond_change_active_slave() and __bond_release_one() are legitimate: They are assigning a pointer to an element from an RCU-protected list (or a NULL pointer), and all elements of this list are already visible to caller. This commit therefore silences these false positives either by laundering the pointers using ACCESS_ONCE() as suggested by Eric Dumazet and Josh Triplett, or by using RCU_INIT_POINTER() for NULL pointer assignments. Reported-by: kbuild test robot Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c index 72df399c4ab3..bbd7fd3e46fe 100644 --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c @@ -890,7 +890,8 @@ void bond_change_active_slave(struct bonding *bond, struct slave *new_active) if (new_active) bond_set_slave_active_flags(new_active); } else { - rcu_assign_pointer(bond->curr_active_slave, new_active); + /* Both --rcu and visible, so ACCESS_ONCE() is OK. */ + ACCESS_ONCE(bond->curr_active_slave) = new_active; } if (bond->params.mode == BOND_MODE_ACTIVEBACKUP) { @@ -1801,7 +1802,7 @@ static int __bond_release_one(struct net_device *bond_dev, } if (all) { - rcu_assign_pointer(bond->curr_active_slave, NULL); + RCU_INIT_POINTER(bond->curr_active_slave, NULL); } else if (oldcurrent == slave) { /* * Note that we hold RTNL over this sequence, so there -- 1.8.1.5