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From: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
To: Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@crudebyte.com>
Cc: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>,
	v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 9p/client: fix data race on req->status
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2022 07:27:48 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y45wZEvO8gOanV85@codewreck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3368929.hG1Ktuj5m1@silver>

Christian Schoenebeck wrote on Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 04:19:01PM +0100:
> I must have missed the prior discussion, but looking at the suggested

Good point, I'll add a link to the report as well...
It's this thread:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+G9fYsK5WUxs6p9NaE4e3p7ew_+s0SdW0+FnBgiLWdYYOvoMg@mail.gmail.com

> solution: if there is no lock, then adding READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() would
> not fix cross-CPU issues, as those would not have a memory barrier in that
> case.
> 
> Shouldn't that therefore rather be at least smp_load_acquire() and
> smp_store_release() at such places instead?

The barrier is here -- I think we're just protecting against compiler
reordering or if on some arch the store isn't actually atomic.

This code path actually was broken before I added the barrier a while
ago (2b6e72ed747f68a03), as I was observing some rare but very real
errors on a big server so I'm fairly confident that for at least x86_64
the generated code isn't too bad, but if KCSAN helps catching stuff I
won't complain.

-- 
Dominique

  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-05 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-05 12:47 [PATCH] 9p/client: fix data race on req->status Dominique Martinet
2022-12-05 13:06 ` Marco Elver
2022-12-05 15:19 ` Christian Schoenebeck
2022-12-05 22:27   ` Dominique Martinet [this message]
2022-12-08 15:51     ` Christian Schoenebeck
2022-12-08 23:50       ` Dominique Martinet
2022-12-09 13:45         ` Christian Schoenebeck
2022-12-09 21:12           ` Dominique Martinet
2022-12-12 13:39             ` Christian Schoenebeck

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