[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "ipv6: fix a lockdep splat" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ipv6: fix a lockdep splat

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt5.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 17:55:01 -0800
Subject: ipv6: fix a lockdep splat

[ Upstream commit 44c3d0c1c0a880354e9de5d94175742e2c7c9683 ]

Silence lockdep false positive about rcu_dereference() being
used in the wrong context.

First one should use rcu_dereference_protected() as we own the spinlock.

Second one should be a normal assignation, as no barrier is needed.

Fixes: 18367681a10bd ("ipv6 flowlabel: Convert np->ipv6_fl_list to RCU.")
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej at codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes at stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
index 1f9ebe3..dc2db4f 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c
@@ -540,12 +540,13 @@ int ipv6_flowlabel_opt(struct sock *sk, char __user *optval, int optlen)
 		}
 		spin_lock_bh(&ip6_sk_fl_lock);
 		for (sflp = &np->ipv6_fl_list;
-		     (sfl = rcu_dereference(*sflp)) != NULL;
+		     (sfl = rcu_dereference_protected(*sflp,
+						      lockdep_is_held(&ip6_sk_fl_lock))) != NULL;
 		     sflp = &sfl->next) {
 			if (sfl->fl->label == freq.flr_label) {
 				if (freq.flr_label == (np->flow_label&IPV6_FLOWLABEL_MASK))
 					np->flow_label &= ~IPV6_FLOWLABEL_MASK;
-				*sflp = rcu_dereference(sfl->next);
+				*sflp = sfl->next;
 				spin_unlock_bh(&ip6_sk_fl_lock);
 				fl_release(sfl->fl);
 				kfree_rcu(sfl, rcu);
--
2.7.0