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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	syzbot <syzbot+3ef049d50587836c0606@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
	Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: KCSAN: data-race in __alloc_file / __alloc_file
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 09:55:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANn89i+RrngUr11_iOYDuqDvAZnPfG3ieJR025M78uhiwEPuvQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANn89iJJiB6avNtZ1qQNTeJwyjW32Pxk_2CwvEJxgQ==kgY0fA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 9:53 AM Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 9:39 AM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> > I'd hope that there is some way to mark the cases we know about where
> > we just have a flag. I'm not sure what KCSAN uses right now - is it
> > just the "volatile" that makes KCSAN ignore it, or are there other
> > ways to do it?
>
> I dunno, Marco will comment on this.
>
> I personally like WRITE_ONCE() since it adds zero overhead on generated code,
> and is the facto accessor we used for many years (before KCSAN was conceived)
>

BTW, I would love an efficient ADD_ONCE(variable, value)

Using WRITE_ONCE(variable, variable + value) is not good, since it can
not use the
optimized instructions operating directly on memory.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-08 17:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-08 13:16 KCSAN: data-race in __alloc_file / __alloc_file syzbot
2019-11-08 13:28 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-08 17:01   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-08 17:22     ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-08 17:38       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-08 17:53         ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-08 17:55           ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2019-11-08 18:02             ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-08 18:12               ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-08 20:30             ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-08 20:53               ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-08 21:36                 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-08 18:05           ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-08 18:15             ` Marco Elver
2019-11-08 18:40               ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-08 19:48                 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-08 20:26                   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-08 21:57                     ` Alan Stern
2019-11-08 22:06                       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-09 23:08                         ` Alan Stern
     [not found] <CAHk-=wjB61GNmqpX0BLA5tpL4tsjWV7akaTc2Roth7uGgax+mw@mail.gmail.com>
2019-11-10 16:09 ` Alan Stern
2019-11-10 19:10   ` Marco Elver
2019-11-11 15:51     ` Alan Stern
2019-11-11 16:51       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-11 17:52         ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-11 18:04           ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-11 18:31             ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-11 18:44               ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-11 19:00                 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-11 19:13                   ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-11 20:43                     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-11 20:46                       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-11 21:53                         ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-11 23:51                   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-12 16:50                     ` Kirill Smelkov
2019-11-12 17:23                       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-12 17:36                         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-17 18:56                           ` Kirill Smelkov
2019-11-17 19:20                             ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-11 18:50               ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-11 18:59                 ` Marco Elver
2019-11-11 18:59                 ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-10 19:12   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-10 19:20     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-10 20:44       ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-11-10 21:10         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-10 21:31           ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-11-11 14:17         ` Marco Elver
2019-11-11 14:31           ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-11-11 15:10             ` Marco Elver
2019-11-13  0:25               ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-11-12 19:14     ` Alan Stern
2019-11-12 19:47       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-12 20:29         ` Alan Stern
2019-11-12 20:58           ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-12 21:13             ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-12 22:05               ` Marco Elver
2019-11-12 21:48             ` Alan Stern
2019-11-12 22:07               ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-12 22:44                 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-11-12 23:17                   ` Eric Dumazet
2019-11-12 23:40                     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-13 15:00                       ` Marco Elver
2019-11-13 16:57                         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-11-13 21:33                           ` Marco Elver
2019-11-13 21:50                             ` Alan Stern
2019-11-13 22:48                               ` Marco Elver

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