Re: cgroup.h:566 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Sat, Oct 06, 2012 at 09:16:07PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> Hi Aristeu,
> 
> I got the below warning in linus/master and linux-next, and it's
> bisected down to:

Cristian Rodríguez reported what looks like the same bug.  Does the
patch below fix it?

							Thanx, Paul

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device_cgroup: Restore rcu_read_lock() protection to devcgroup_inode_mknod()

Commit ad676077 (device_cgroup: convert device_cgroup internally to
policy + exceptions) restructured devcgroup_inode_mknod(), removing
rcu_read_lock() in the process.  However, RCU read-side protection
is required by the call to task_devcgroup(), so this commit restores
the rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock().

Reported-by: Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@opensuse.org>
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

diff --git a/security/device_cgroup.c b/security/device_cgroup.c
index 44dfc41..c686110 100644
--- a/security/device_cgroup.c
+++ b/security/device_cgroup.c
@@ -576,9 +576,12 @@ int __devcgroup_inode_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
 
 int devcgroup_inode_mknod(int mode, dev_t dev)
 {
-	struct dev_cgroup *dev_cgroup = task_devcgroup(current);
+	struct dev_cgroup *dev_cgroup;
+	int ret;
 	short type;
 
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	dev_cgroup = task_devcgroup(current);
 	if (!S_ISBLK(mode) && !S_ISCHR(mode))
 		return 0;
 
@@ -587,7 +590,9 @@ int devcgroup_inode_mknod(int mode, dev_t dev)
 	else
 		type = DEV_CHAR;
 
-	return __devcgroup_check_permission(dev_cgroup, type, MAJOR(dev),
+	ret =  __devcgroup_check_permission(dev_cgroup, type, MAJOR(dev),
 					    MINOR(dev), ACC_MKNOD);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
+	return ret;
 
 }