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

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>