Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 16 Sep 2020 06:21:29 +1000 (AEST) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | [GIT PULL] security: device_cgroup RCU warning fix |
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This was posted a while back and been baking in -next for a while, please consider for 5.9.
The following changes since commit bcf876870b95592b52519ed4aafcf9d95999bc9c:
Linux 5.8 (2020-08-02 14:21:45 -0700)
are available in the Git repository at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security.git tags/fixes-v5.9a
for you to fetch changes up to bc62d68e2a0a69fcdcf28aca8edb01abf306b698:
device_cgroup: Fix RCU list debugging warning (2020-08-20 11:25:03 -0700)
---------------------------------------------------------------- device_cgroup RCU warning fix from Amol Grover <frextrite@gmail.com>
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Amol Grover (1): device_cgroup: Fix RCU list debugging warning
security/device_cgroup.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
commit bc62d68e2a0a69fcdcf28aca8edb01abf306b698 Author: Amol Grover <frextrite@gmail.com> Date: Mon Apr 6 16:29:50 2020 +0530
device_cgroup: Fix RCU list debugging warning exceptions may be traversed using list_for_each_entry_rcu() outside of an RCU read side critical section BUT under the protection of decgroup_mutex. Hence add the corresponding lockdep expression to fix the following false-positive warning: [ 2.304417] ============================= [ 2.304418] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage [ 2.304420] 5.5.4-stable #17 Tainted: G E [ 2.304422] ----------------------------- [ 2.304424] security/device_cgroup.c:355 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!! Signed-off-by: Amol Grover <frextrite@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
diff --git a/security/device_cgroup.c b/security/device_cgroup.c index 43ab0ad45c1b..04375df52fc9 100644 --- a/security/device_cgroup.c +++ b/security/device_cgroup.c @@ -354,7 +354,8 @@ static bool match_exception_partial(struct list_head *exceptions, short type, { struct dev_exception_item *ex; - list_for_each_entry_rcu(ex, exceptions, list) { + list_for_each_entry_rcu(ex, exceptions, list, + lockdep_is_held(&devcgroup_mutex)) { if ((type & DEVCG_DEV_BLOCK) && !(ex->type & DEVCG_DEV_BLOCK)) continue; if ((type & DEVCG_DEV_CHAR) && !(ex->type & DEVCG_DEV_CHAR))
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