From: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]> 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 ipip6_tunnel_unlink() 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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> Cc: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]> Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <[email protected]> Cc: James Morris <[email protected]> Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <[email protected]> Cc: Patrick McHardy <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] --- net/ipv6/sit.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/ipv6/sit.c b/net/ipv6/sit.c index 7ee5cb96db34..fcb050ab5134 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/sit.c +++ b/net/ipv6/sit.c @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ static void ipip6_tunnel_unlink(struct sit_net *sitn, struct ip_tunnel *t) (iter = rtnl_dereference(*tp)) != NULL; tp = &iter->next) { if (t == iter) { - rcu_assign_pointer(*tp, t->next); + rcu_assign_pointer(*tp, rcu_access_pointer(t->next)); break; } } -- 1.8.1.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
