device_cgroup uses RCU safe ->exceptions list which is write-protected by devcgroup_mutex and has had some issues using locking correctly. Add lockdep asserts to utility functions so that future errors can be easily detected. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxx> --- If this looks good, I'll route it with Aristeu's earlier patch through cgroup/for-3.7-fixes. Thanks. security/device_cgroup.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) --- a/security/device_cgroup.c +++ b/security/device_cgroup.c @@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ static int dev_exceptions_copy(struct li { struct dev_exception_item *ex, *tmp, *new; + lockdep_assert_held(&devcgroup_mutex); + list_for_each_entry(ex, orig, list) { new = kmemdup(ex, sizeof(*ex), GFP_KERNEL); if (!new) @@ -107,6 +109,8 @@ static int dev_exception_add(struct dev_ { struct dev_exception_item *excopy, *walk; + lockdep_assert_held(&devcgroup_mutex); + excopy = kmemdup(ex, sizeof(*ex), GFP_KERNEL); if (!excopy) return -ENOMEM; @@ -137,6 +141,8 @@ static void dev_exception_rm(struct dev_ { struct dev_exception_item *walk, *tmp; + lockdep_assert_held(&devcgroup_mutex); + list_for_each_entry_safe(walk, tmp, &dev_cgroup->exceptions, list) { if (walk->type != ex->type) continue; @@ -163,6 +169,8 @@ static void dev_exception_clean(struct d { struct dev_exception_item *ex, *tmp; + lockdep_assert_held(&devcgroup_mutex); + list_for_each_entry_safe(ex, tmp, &dev_cgroup->exceptions, list) { list_del_rcu(&ex->list); kfree_rcu(ex, rcu); @@ -298,6 +306,10 @@ static int may_access(struct dev_cgroup struct dev_exception_item *ex; bool match = false; + rcu_lockdep_assert(rcu_read_lock_held() || + lockdep_is_held(&devcgroup_mutex), + "device_cgroup::may_access() called without proper synchronization"); + list_for_each_entry_rcu(ex, &dev_cgroup->exceptions, list) { if ((refex->type & DEV_BLOCK) && !(ex->type & DEV_BLOCK)) continue; _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers