[PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 123/138] ipv6: fix a lockdep splat

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed Mar 9 23:14:10 UTC 2016


3.13.11-ckt36 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>

commit 44c3d0c1c0a880354e9de5d94175742e2c7c9683 upstream.

Silence lockdep false positive about rcu_dereference() being
used in the wrong context.

First one should use rcu_dereference_protected() as we own the spinlock.

Second one should be a normal assignation, as no barrier is needed.

Fixes: 18367681a10bd ("ipv6 flowlabel: Convert np->ipv6_fl_list to RCU.")
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej at codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes at stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
index e7fb710..0d8b127 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
@@ -529,12 +529,13 @@ int ipv6_flowlabel_opt(struct sock *sk, char __user *optval, int optlen)
 	case IPV6_FL_A_PUT:
 		spin_lock_bh(&ip6_sk_fl_lock);
 		for (sflp = &np->ipv6_fl_list;
-		     (sfl = rcu_dereference(*sflp))!=NULL;
+		     (sfl = rcu_dereference_protected(*sflp,
+						      lockdep_is_held(&ip6_sk_fl_lock))) != NULL;
 		     sflp = &sfl->next) {
 			if (sfl->fl->label == freq.flr_label) {
 				if (freq.flr_label == (np->flow_label&IPV6_FLOWLABEL_MASK))
 					np->flow_label &= ~IPV6_FLOWLABEL_MASK;
-				*sflp = rcu_dereference(sfl->next);
+				*sflp = sfl->next;
 				spin_unlock_bh(&ip6_sk_fl_lock);
 				fl_release(sfl->fl);
 				kfree_rcu(sfl, rcu);
-- 
2.7.0





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