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Florian Westphal says:
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net: add rcu annotations for ifa_list
v3: fix typo in patch1 commit message
All other patches are unchanged.
v2: remove ifa_list iteration in afs instead of conversion
Eric Dumazet reported following problem:
It looks that unless RTNL is held, accessing ifa_list needs proper RCU
protection. indev->ifa_list can be changed under us by another cpu
(which owns RTNL) [..]
A proper rcu_dereference() with an happy sparse support would require
adding __rcu attribute.
This patch series does that: add __rcu to the ifa_list pointers.
That makes sparse complain, so the series also adds the required
rcu_assign_pointer/dereference helpers where needed.
All patches except the last one are preparation work.
Two new macros are introduced for in_ifaddr walks.
Last patch adds the __rcu annotations and the assign_pointer/dereference
helper calls.
This patch is a bit large, but I found no better way -- other
approaches (annotate-first or add helpers-first) all result in
mid-series sparse warnings.
This series is submitted vs. net-next rather than net for several
reasons:
1. Its (mostly) compile-tested only
2. 3rd patch changes behaviour wrt. secondary addresses
(see changelog)
3. The problem exists for a very long time (2004), so it doesn't
seem to be urgent to fix this -- rcu use to free ifa_list
predates the git era.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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