From: "Paul E. McKenney" <redacted>
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
ip_ra_control() 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 <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <redacted>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <redacted>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <redacted>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <redacted>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
---
net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
index d9c4f113d709..d328f158f0e5 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ int ip_ra_control(struct sock *sk, unsigned char on,
}
/* dont let ip_call_ra_chain() use sk again */
ra->sk = NULL;
- rcu_assign_pointer(*rap, ra->next);
+ rcu_assign_pointer(*rap, rcu_access_pointer(ra->next));
spin_unlock_bh(&ip_ra_lock);
if (ra->destructor)
--
1.8.1.5