Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 2 authors, 2020-01-24

Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH] sched.h: Annotate sighand_struct with __rcu

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Date: 2020-01-23 16:41:10
Also in: lkml, rcu

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 08:23:05PM +0530, madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
From: Madhuparna Bhowmik <redacted>

This patch fixes the following sparse errors by annotating the
sighand_struct with __rcu

kernel/fork.c:1511:9: error: incompatible types in comparison expression
kernel/exit.c:100:19: error: incompatible types in comparison expression
kernel/signal.c:1370:27: error: incompatible types in comparison expression

This fix introduces the following sparse error in signal.c due to
checking the sighand pointer without rcu primitives:

kernel/signal.c:1386:21: error: incompatible types in comparison expression

This new sparse error is also addressed in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <redacted>
---
 include/linux/sched.h | 2 +-
 kernel/signal.c       | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index b511e178a89f..7a351360ad54 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -918,7 +918,7 @@ struct task_struct {
 
 	/* Signal handlers: */
 	struct signal_struct		*signal;
-	struct sighand_struct		*sighand;
+	struct sighand_struct __rcu		*sighand;
 	sigset_t			blocked;
 	sigset_t			real_blocked;
 	/* Restored if set_restore_sigmask() was used: */
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index bcd46f547db3..1272def37462 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -1383,7 +1383,8 @@ struct sighand_struct *__lock_task_sighand(struct task_struct *tsk,
 		 * must see ->sighand == NULL.
 		 */
 		spin_lock_irqsave(&sighand->siglock, *flags);
-		if (likely(sighand == tsk->sighand))
+		if (likely(sighand == rcu_dereference_protected(tsk->sighand,
+						lockdep_is_held(&sighand->siglock))))
Given that the return value is never dereferenced, you can use
rcu_access_pointer(), which may be used outside of an RCU read-side
critical section, and thus does not need the lockdep_is_held().  So this
change would save a line of code and would be a bit easier on the eyes.

							Thanx, Paul
 			break;
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sighand->siglock, *flags);
 	}
-- 
2.17.1
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