[PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/14] decnet: Apply ACCESS_ONCE() to avoid sparse false positive

[Paul E. McKenney]

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The sparse checking for rcu_assign_pointer() was recently upgraded
to reject non-__kernel address spaces.  This also rejects __rcu,
which is almost always the right thing to do.  However, the use in
dn_insert_route() is legitimate: It is assigning a pointer to an element
from an RCU-protected list, and all elements of this list are already
visible to caller.

This commit therefore silences this false positive by laundering the
pointer using ACCESS_ONCE() as suggested by Eric Dumazet and Josh
Triplett.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Gao feng <gaofeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-decnet-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
 net/decnet/dn_route.c | 8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/decnet/dn_route.c b/net/decnet/dn_route.c
index fe32388ea24f..a6ef8b025035 100644
--- a/net/decnet/dn_route.c
+++ b/net/decnet/dn_route.c
@@ -344,8 +344,9 @@ static int dn_insert_route(struct dn_route *rt, unsigned int hash, struct dn_rou
 		if (compare_keys(&rth->fld, &rt->fld)) {
 			/* Put it first */
 			*rthp = rth->dst.dn_next;
-			rcu_assign_pointer(rth->dst.dn_next,
-					   dn_rt_hash_table[hash].chain);
+			/* Both --rcu and visible, so ACCESS_ONCE() is OK. */
+			ACCESS_ONCE(rth->dst.dn_next) =
+					   dn_rt_hash_table[hash].chain;
 			rcu_assign_pointer(dn_rt_hash_table[hash].chain, rth);
 
 			dst_use(&rth->dst, now);
@@ -358,7 +359,8 @@ static int dn_insert_route(struct dn_route *rt, unsigned int hash, struct dn_rou
 		rthp = &rth->dst.dn_next;
 	}
 
-	rcu_assign_pointer(rt->dst.dn_next, dn_rt_hash_table[hash].chain);
+	/* Both --rcu and visible, so ACCESS_ONCE() is OK. */
+	ACCESS_ONCE(rt->dst.dn_next) = dn_rt_hash_table[hash].chain;
 	rcu_assign_pointer(dn_rt_hash_table[hash].chain, rt);
 
 	dst_use(&rt->dst, now);
-- 
1.8.1.5

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