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bpf: fix a rcu usage warning in bpf_prog_array_copy_core()
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Commit 394e40a ("bpf: extend bpf_prog_array to store pointers
to the cgroup storage") refactored the bpf_prog_array_copy_core()
to accommodate new structure bpf_prog_array_item which contains
bpf_prog array itself.

In the old code, we had
   perf_event_query_prog_array():
     mutex_lock(...)
     bpf_prog_array_copy_call():
       prog = rcu_dereference_check(array, 1)->progs
       bpf_prog_array_copy_core(prog, ...)
     mutex_unlock(...)

With the above commit, we had
   perf_event_query_prog_array():
     mutex_lock(...)
     bpf_prog_array_copy_call():
       bpf_prog_array_copy_core(array, ...):
         item = rcu_dereference(array)->items;
         ...
     mutex_unlock(...)

The new code will trigger a lockdep rcu checking warning.
The fix is to change rcu_dereference() to rcu_dereference_check()
to prevent such a warning.

Reported-by: syzbot+6e72317008eef84a216b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 394e40a ("bpf: extend bpf_prog_array to store pointers to the cgroup storage")
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
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Yonghong Song authored and Daniel Borkmann committed Aug 16, 2018
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion kernel/bpf/core.c
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Expand Up @@ -1579,7 +1579,7 @@ static bool bpf_prog_array_copy_core(struct bpf_prog_array __rcu *array,
struct bpf_prog_array_item *item;
int i = 0;

item = rcu_dereference(array)->items;
item = rcu_dereference_check(array, 1)->items;
for (; item->prog; item++) {
if (item->prog == &dummy_bpf_prog.prog)
continue;
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