This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled vsock/virtio: annotate 'the_virtio_vsock' RCU pointer to the 5.7-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: vsock-virtio-annotate-the_virtio_vsock-rcu-pointer.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 03adcc0d21f0f8e83150fb8b57b7861bbb5d324d Author: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jul 10 14:12:43 2020 +0200 vsock/virtio: annotate 'the_virtio_vsock' RCU pointer [ Upstream commit f961134a612c793d5901a93d85a29337c74af978 ] 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> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c b/net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c index dfbaf6bd8b1c7..2700a63ab095e 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 {