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[PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 09/13] ipv6/sit: Apply rcu_access_pointer() to avoid sparse false positive

From: Paul E. McKenney <hidden>
Date: 2013-10-09 21:33:34
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

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
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 <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/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;
 		}
 	}
-- 
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