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From: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, davem@davemloft.net
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vsock/virtio: annotate 'the_virtio_vsock' RCU pointer
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:34:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200715143446.kfl3zb4vwkk4ic4r@steredhat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200713065423-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>

On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 06:54:43AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 02:12:43PM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> > Commit 0deab087b16a ("vsock/virtio: use RCU to avoid use-after-free
> > on the_virtio_vsock") starts to use RCU to protect 'the_virtio_vsock'
> > pointer, but we forgot to annotate it.
> > 
> > This patch adds the annotation to fix the following sparse errors:
> > 
> >     net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:73:17: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
> >     net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:73:17:    struct virtio_vsock [noderef] __rcu *
> >     net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:73:17:    struct virtio_vsock *
> >     net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:171:17: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
> >     net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:171:17:    struct virtio_vsock [noderef] __rcu *
> >     net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:171:17:    struct virtio_vsock *
> >     net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:207:17: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
> >     net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:207:17:    struct virtio_vsock [noderef] __rcu *
> >     net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:207:17:    struct virtio_vsock *
> >     net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:561:13: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
> >     net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:561:13:    struct virtio_vsock [noderef] __rcu *
> >     net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:561:13:    struct virtio_vsock *
> >     net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:612:9: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
> >     net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:612:9:    struct virtio_vsock [noderef] __rcu *
> >     net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:612:9:    struct virtio_vsock *
> >     net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:631:9: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
> >     net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:631:9:    struct virtio_vsock [noderef] __rcu *
> >     net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:631:9:    struct virtio_vsock *
> > 
> > Fixes: 0deab087b16a ("vsock/virtio: use RCU to avoid use-after-free on the_virtio_vsock")
> > Reported-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
> 
> 
> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> 
> who's merging this? Dave?

I think so, but I forgot the 'net' tag :-(

I'll wait to see if Dave will queue this, otherwise I'll resend with
the 'net' tag.

Thanks,
Stefano


  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-15 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-10 12:12 [PATCH] vsock/virtio: annotate 'the_virtio_vsock' RCU pointer Stefano Garzarella
2020-07-13  9:28 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-07-13 10:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-07-15 14:34   ` Stefano Garzarella [this message]
2020-07-16  0:49     ` Jakub Kicinski

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