Re: [PATCH] bpf: propagate __user annotations properly

[Yonghong Song]

On 12/7/20 4:37 AM, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> __htab_map_lookup_and_delete_batch() stores a user pointer in the local
> variable ubatch and uses that in copy_{from,to}_user(), but ubatch misses a
> __user annotation.
>
> So, sparse warns in the various assignments and uses of ubatch:
>
>    kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:1415:24: warning: incorrect type in initializer
>      (different address spaces)
>    kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:1415:24:    expected void *ubatch
>    kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:1415:24:    got void [noderef] __user *
>
>    kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:1444:46: warning: incorrect type in argument 2
>      (different address spaces)
>    kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:1444:46:    expected void const [noderef] __user *from
>    kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:1444:46:    got void *ubatch
>
>    kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:1608:16: warning: incorrect type in assignment
>      (different address spaces)
>    kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:1608:16:    expected void *ubatch
>    kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:1608:16:    got void [noderef] __user *
>
>    kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:1609:26: warning: incorrect type in argument 1
>      (different address spaces)
>    kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:1609:26:    expected void [noderef] __user *to
>    kernel/bpf/hashtab.c:1609:26:    got void *ubatch
>
> Add the __user annotation to repair this chain of propagating __user
> annotations in __htab_map_lookup_and_delete_batch().

Add fix tag?

Fixes: 057996380a42 ("bpf: Add batch ops to all htab bpf map")

> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for the fix. LGTM. I guess either bpf or bpf-next tree is fine
since this is not a correctness issue.

Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx>