This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled device_cgroup: Fix RCU list debugging warning to the 5.4-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: device_cgroup-fix-rcu-list-debugging-warning.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1d85cd0a270d0aac63c00811b7e0090848029814 Author: Amol Grover <frextrite@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Apr 6 16:29:50 2020 +0530 device_cgroup: Fix RCU list debugging warning [ Upstream commit bc62d68e2a0a69fcdcf28aca8edb01abf306b698 ] 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@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/security/device_cgroup.c b/security/device_cgroup.c index 725674f3276d3..5d7bb91c64876 100644 --- a/security/device_cgroup.c +++ b/security/device_cgroup.c @@ -352,7 +352,8 @@ 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))