From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org, sparse@chrisli.org,
linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer's assignment volatile and type-safe
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 16:42:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130901234251.GB25057@leaf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130901224317.GA25057@leaf>
rcu_assign_pointer needs to use ACCESS_ONCE to make the assignment to
the destination pointer volatile, to protect against compilers too
clever for their own good.
In addition, since rcu_assign_pointer force-casts the source pointer to
add the __rcu address space (overriding any existing address space), add
an explicit check that the source pointer has the __kernel address space
to start with.
This new check produces warnings like this, when attempting to assign
from a __user pointer:
test.c:25:9: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different address spaces)
test.c:25:9: expected struct foo *<noident>
test.c:25:9: got struct foo [noderef] <asn:1>*badsrc
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
---
include/linux/rcupdate.h | 12 +++++++++++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index 4b14bdc..3f62def 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -510,8 +510,17 @@ static inline void rcu_preempt_sleep_check(void)
#ifdef __CHECKER__
#define rcu_dereference_sparse(p, space) \
((void)(((typeof(*p) space *)p) == p))
+/* The dummy first argument in __rcu_assign_pointer_typecheck makes the
+ * typechecked pointer the second argument, matching rcu_assign_pointer itself;
+ * this avoids confusion about argument numbers in warning messages. */
+#define __rcu_assign_pointer_check_kernel(v) \
+ do { \
+ extern void __rcu_assign_pointer_typecheck(int, typeof(*(v)) __kernel *); \
+ __rcu_assign_pointer_typecheck(0, v); \
+ } while (0)
#else /* #ifdef __CHECKER__ */
#define rcu_dereference_sparse(p, space)
+#define __rcu_assign_pointer_check_kernel(v) do { } while (0)
#endif /* #else #ifdef __CHECKER__ */
#define __rcu_access_pointer(p, space) \
@@ -555,7 +564,8 @@ static inline void rcu_preempt_sleep_check(void)
#define __rcu_assign_pointer(p, v, space) \
do { \
smp_wmb(); \
- (p) = (typeof(*v) __force space *)(v); \
+ __rcu_assign_pointer_check_kernel(v); \
+ ACCESS_ONCE(p) = (typeof(*(v)) __force space *)(v); \
} while (0)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-01 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20130822213318.49a57fa2@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
[not found] ` <20130823164637.GB3871@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[not found] ` <20130823171653.GA16558@Krystal>
[not found] ` <20130823210822.GD3871@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-08-30 0:57 ` [RFC] adding into middle of RCU list Paul E. McKenney
2013-08-30 2:16 ` Josh Triplett
2013-08-31 21:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-01 20:42 ` Josh Triplett
2013-09-01 22:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-01 22:43 ` Josh Triplett
2013-09-01 23:42 ` Josh Triplett [this message]
2013-09-02 2:01 ` [PATCH] rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer's assignment volatile and type-safe Paul E. McKenney
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