[PATCH tip/core/rcu 07/14] ipv6/ip6_gre: Apply ACCESS_ONCE() to avoid sparse false positive

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

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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
ip6gre_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 ACCESS_ONCE() as suggested by Eric Dumazet and Josh
Triplett.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
index 6b26e9feafb9..7bc9e1b3283e 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_gre.c
@@ -276,7 +276,8 @@ static void ip6gre_tunnel_unlink(struct ip6gre_net *ign, struct ip6_tnl *t)
 	     (iter = rtnl_dereference(*tp)) != NULL;
 	     tp = &iter->next) {
 		if (t == iter) {
-			rcu_assign_pointer(*tp, t->next);
+			/* Both --rcu and visible, so ACCESS_ONCE() is OK. */
+			ACCESS_ONCE(*tp) = t->next;
 			break;
 		}
 	}
-- 
1.8.1.5