From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>, Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] rculist: list_first_or_null_rcu() should use list_entry_rcu()
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:32:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130621003244.GD11837@mtj.dyndns.org> (raw)
list_first_or_null() should test whether the list is empty and return
pointer to the first entry if not in a RCU safe manner. It's broken
in two ways.
* It compares __kernel @__ptr with __rcu @__next triggering the
following sparse warning.
net/core/dev.c:4331:17: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces)
* It doesn't perform rcu_dereference*() and computes the entry address
using container_of() directly from the __rcu pointer which is
inconsitent with other rculist interface. As a result, all three
in-kernel users - net/core/dev.c, macvlan, cgroup - are buggy. They
dereference the pointer w/o going through read barrier.
Fix it by making list_first_or_null_rcu() dereference ->next directly
and then use list_entry_rcu() on it like other rculist accessors.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
include/linux/rculist.h | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/rculist.h
+++ b/include/linux/rculist.h
@@ -267,8 +267,9 @@ static inline void list_splice_init_rcu(
*/
#define list_first_or_null_rcu(ptr, type, member) \
({struct list_head *__ptr = (ptr); \
- struct list_head __rcu *__next = list_next_rcu(__ptr); \
- likely(__ptr != __next) ? container_of(__next, type, member) : NULL; \
+ struct list_head *__next = __ptr->next; \
+ likely(__ptr != __next) ? \
+ list_entry_rcu(__next, type, member) : NULL; \
})
/**
next reply other threads:[~2013-06-21 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-21 0:32 Tejun Heo [this message]
2013-06-25 18:51 ` [PATCH] rculist: list_first_or_null_rcu() should use list_entry_rcu() Tejun Heo
2013-06-25 22:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-25 23:09 ` Tejun Heo
2013-06-26 14:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-26 15:25 ` Tejun Heo
2013-06-26 17:27 ` [PATCH v2] " Tejun Heo
2013-06-28 17:24 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-06-28 17:31 ` Tejun Heo
2013-06-28 17:34 ` [PATCH v3] " Tejun Heo
2013-06-28 19:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-07-23 14:48 ` Tejun Heo
2013-07-23 15:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
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