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* [PATCH] vsock/virtio: annotate 'the_virtio_vsock' RCU pointer
@ 2020-07-10 12:12 Stefano Garzarella
  2020-07-13  9:28 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
  2020-07-13 10:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Stefano Garzarella @ 2020-07-10 12:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: davem
  Cc: Stefano Garzarella, Stefan Hajnoczi, virtualization,
	Michael S. Tsirkin, linux-kernel, netdev, Jakub Kicinski, kvm

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>
---
 net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c
index dfbaf6bd8b1c..2700a63ab095 100644
--- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c
+++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 #include <net/af_vsock.h>
 
 static struct workqueue_struct *virtio_vsock_workqueue;
-static struct virtio_vsock *the_virtio_vsock;
+static struct virtio_vsock __rcu *the_virtio_vsock;
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(the_virtio_vsock_mutex); /* protects the_virtio_vsock */
 
 struct virtio_vsock {
-- 
2.26.2


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2020-07-13  9:28 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2020-07-13 10:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2020-07-15 14:34   ` Stefano Garzarella
2020-07-15 14:34     ` Stefano Garzarella
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