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From: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf] bpf: fix a rcu usage warning in
 bpf_prog_array_copy_core()
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 17:08:44 -0700
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On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 04:59:45PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 11:01:12AM -0700, Yonghong Song wrote:
> > Commit 394e40a29788 ("bpf: extend bpf_prog_array to store pointers
> > to the cgroup storage") refactored the bpf_prog_array_copy_core()
> > to accommodate new structure bpf_prog_array_item which contains
> > bpf_prog array itself.
> > 
> > In the old code, we had
> >    perf_event_query_prog_array():
> >      mutex_lock(...)
> >      bpf_prog_array_copy_call():
> >        prog = rcu_dereference_check(array, 1)->progs
> >        bpf_prog_array_copy_core(prog, ...)
> >      mutex_unlock(...)
> > 
> > With the above commit, we had
> >    perf_event_query_prog_array():
> >      mutex_lock(...)
> >      bpf_prog_array_copy_call():
> >        bpf_prog_array_copy_core(array, ...):
> >          item = rcu_dereference(array)->items;
> >          ...
> >      mutex_unlock(...)
> > 
> > The new code will trigger a lockdep rcu checking warning.
> > The fix is to change rcu_dereference() to rcu_dereference_check()
> > to prevent such a warning.
> > 
> > Reported-by: syzbot+6e72317008eef84a216b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> > Fixes: 394e40a29788 ("bpf: extend bpf_prog_array to store pointers to the cgroup storage")
> > Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
> 
> makes sense to me
> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
> 
> Roman, would you agree?
> 

rcu_dereference_check(<>, 1) always looks a bit strange to me,
but if it's the only reasonable way to silence the warning,
of course I'm fine with it.

Thanks!