Re: [PATCH v2] net/sock: Update sk rcu iterator macro.

From: Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)
Date: Mon Oct 23 2017 - 14:44:19 EST


On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 11:39:22AM -0400, Tim Hansen wrote:
>Mark hlist nodes in sk rcu iterator as protected by the rcu.
>hlist_next_rcu accomplishes this and silences the warnings
>sparse throws for net/ipv4/udp.c and net/ipv6/udp.c.
>
>Found with make C=1 net/ipv4/udp.o on linux-next tag
>next-20171009.
>
>Signed-off-by: Tim Hansen <devtimhansen@xxxxxxxxx>
>---
> include/net/sock.h | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/include/net/sock.h b/include/net/sock.h
>index 64e5ac41b9cf..96cb7b7e4924 100644
>--- a/include/net/sock.h
>+++ b/include/net/sock.h
>@@ -737,10 +737,10 @@ static inline void sk_add_bind_node(struct sock *sk,
> *
> */
> #define sk_for_each_entry_offset_rcu(tpos, pos, head, offset) \
>- for (pos = rcu_dereference((head)->first); \
>+ for (pos = rcu_dereference(hlist_next_rcu((head)->first)); \

See below.

> pos != NULL && \
> ({ tpos = (typeof(*tpos) *)((void *)pos - offset); 1;}); \
>- pos = rcu_dereference(pos->next))
>+ pos = rcu_dereference(hlist_next_rcu(pos->next)))

This will return the next-next node instead of just the next one. You
probably want just hlist_next_rcu(pos) here.

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Thanks,
Sasha