Commit 4dfd5cd8 authored by Amol Grover's avatar Amol Grover Committed by Paul E. McKenney

rculist: Add brackets around cond argument in __list_check_rcu macro

Passing a complex lockdep condition to __list_check_rcu results
in false positive lockdep splat due to incorrect expression
evaluation.

For example, a lockdep check condition `cond1 || cond2` is
evaluated as `!cond1 || cond2 && !rcu_read_lock_any_held()`
which, according to operator precedence, evaluates to
`!cond1 || (cond2 && !rcu_read_lock_any_held())`.
This would result in a lockdep splat when cond1 is false
and cond2 is true which is logically incorrect.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAmol Grover <frextrite@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJoel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
parent aa24f937
......@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@ static inline void INIT_LIST_HEAD_RCU(struct list_head *list)
#define __list_check_rcu(dummy, cond, extra...) \
({ \
check_arg_count_one(extra); \
RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(!cond && !rcu_read_lock_any_held(), \
RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(!(cond) && !rcu_read_lock_any_held(), \
"RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!"); \
})
})
#else
#define __list_check_rcu(dummy, cond, extra...) \
({ check_arg_count_one(extra); })
......
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