From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-19.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08D9EC43459 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2021 08:05:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA8FD619A0 for ; Mon, 29 Mar 2021 08:05:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232067AbhC2IE6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Mar 2021 04:04:58 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:45670 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231154AbhC2IDD (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Mar 2021 04:03:03 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A6E4D61969; Mon, 29 Mar 2021 08:02:58 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1617004979; bh=g2vrgh2c805/HPJwRpNuUE/eHD2ka+kPptCk+sRlgDs=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=CfDCYFdWU5ESX7SiBZG8xGmgKwaGaNZsF2BxRgeajL8ZSSBZLM80aLAspwq3qwWnP xKbpLdnp0BK/QEkAxetb7DgbRGCefJM94k1uazcjgv+3TPJrqeI707Wcxg28jZYmj7 wD6LuICHpZM0FbOGY4FqDrU8H7TXU2jJt/8BjqCQ= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" , juri.lelli@arm.com, bigeasy@linutronix.de, xlpang@redhat.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, jdesfossez@efficios.com, dvhart@infradead.org, bristot@redhat.com, Thomas Gleixner , Ben Hutchings Subject: [PATCH 4.9 37/53] futex: Use smp_store_release() in mark_wake_futex() Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 09:58:12 +0200 Message-Id: <20210329075608.735190492@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.31.1 In-Reply-To: <20210329075607.561619583@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20210329075607.561619583@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Peter Zijlstra commit 1b367ece0d7e696cab1c8501bab282cc6a538b3f upstream. Since the futex_q can dissapear the instruction after assigning NULL, this really should be a RELEASE barrier. That stops loads from hitting dead memory too. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: juri.lelli@arm.com Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de Cc: xlpang@redhat.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Cc: jdesfossez@efficios.com Cc: dvhart@infradead.org Cc: bristot@redhat.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170322104151.604296452@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/futex.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c @@ -1565,8 +1565,7 @@ static void mark_wake_futex(struct wake_ * memory barrier is required here to prevent the following * store to lock_ptr from getting ahead of the plist_del. */ - smp_wmb(); - q->lock_ptr = NULL; + smp_store_release(&q->lock_ptr, NULL); } /*