[Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH net v2 2/2] ipmr: Add lockdep expression to ipmr_for_each_table macro

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Fri May 15 01:01:32 UTC 2020


From: Amol Grover <frextrite at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 23:31:03 +0530

> During the initialization process, ipmr_new_table() is called
> to create new tables which in turn calls ipmr_get_table() which
> traverses net->ipv4.mr_tables without holding the writer lock.
> However, this is safe to do so as no tables exist at this time.
> Hence add a suitable lockdep expression to silence the following
> false-positive warning:
> 
> =============================
> WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
> 5.7.0-rc3-next-20200428-syzkaller #0 Not tainted
> -----------------------------
> net/ipv4/ipmr.c:136 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!!
> 
> ipmr_get_table+0x130/0x160 net/ipv4/ipmr.c:136
> ipmr_new_table net/ipv4/ipmr.c:403 [inline]
> ipmr_rules_init net/ipv4/ipmr.c:248 [inline]
> ipmr_net_init+0x133/0x430 net/ipv4/ipmr.c:3089
> 
> Fixes: f0ad0860d01e ("ipv4: ipmr: support multiple tables")
> Reported-by: syzbot+1519f497f2f9f08183c6 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Suggested-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Amol Grover <frextrite at gmail.com>

Applied.


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