On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 02:12:43PM +0200, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> Commit 0deab087b16a ("vsock/virtio: use RCU to avoid use-after-free
> on the_virtio_vsock") starts to use RCU to protect 'the_virtio_vsock'
> pointer, but we forgot to annotate it.
>
> This patch adds the annotation to fix the following sparse errors:
>
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:73:17: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:73:17: struct virtio_vsock [noderef] __rcu *
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:73:17: struct virtio_vsock *
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:171:17: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:171:17: struct virtio_vsock [noderef] __rcu *
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:171:17: struct virtio_vsock *
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:207:17: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:207:17: struct virtio_vsock [noderef] __rcu *
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:207:17: struct virtio_vsock *
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:561:13: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:561:13: struct virtio_vsock [noderef] __rcu *
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:561:13: struct virtio_vsock *
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:612:9: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:612:9: struct virtio_vsock [noderef] __rcu *
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:612:9: struct virtio_vsock *
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:631:9: error: incompatible types in comparison expression (different address spaces):
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:631:9: struct virtio_vsock [noderef] __rcu *
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:631:9: struct virtio_vsock *
>
> Fixes: 0deab087b16a ("vsock/virtio: use RCU to avoid use-after-free on the_virtio_vsock")
> Reported-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
who's merging this? Dave?
> ---
> net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c
> index dfbaf6bd8b1c..2700a63ab095 100644
> --- a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c
> +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c
> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
> #include <net/af_vsock.h>
>
> static struct workqueue_struct *virtio_vsock_workqueue;
> -static struct virtio_vsock *the_virtio_vsock;
> +static struct virtio_vsock __rcu *the_virtio_vsock;
> static DEFINE_MUTEX(the_virtio_vsock_mutex); /* protects the_virtio_vsock */
>
> struct virtio_vsock {
> --
> 2.26.2
