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While this code is executed with the wait_lock held, a reader can
acquire the lock without holding wait_lock. The writer side loops
checking the value with the atomic_cond_read_acquire(), but only truly
acquires the lock when the compare-and-exchange is completed
successfully which isn’t ordered. This exposes the window between the
acquire and the cmpxchg to an A-B-A problem which allows reads
following the lock acquisition to observe values speculatively before
the write lock is truly acquired.
We've seen a problem in epoll where the reader does a xchg while
holding the read lock, but the writer can see a value change out from
under it.
Writer | Reader
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ep_scan_ready_list() |
|- write_lock_irq() |
|- queued_write_lock_slowpath() |
|- atomic_cond_read_acquire() |
| read_lock_irqsave(&ep->lock, flags);
--> (observes value before unlock) | chain_epi_lockless()
| | epi->next = xchg(&ep->ovflist, epi);
| | read_unlock_irqrestore(&ep->lock, flags);
| |
| atomic_cmpxchg_relaxed() |
|-- READ_ONCE(ep->ovflist); |
A core can order the read of the ovflist ahead of the
atomic_cmpxchg_relaxed(). Switching the cmpxchg to use acquire
semantics addresses this issue at which point the atomic_cond_read can
be switched to use relaxed semantics.
Fixes:
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| .. | ||
| irqflag-debug.c | ||
| lock_events_list.h | ||
| lock_events.c | ||
| lock_events.h | ||
| lockdep_internals.h | ||
| lockdep_proc.c | ||
| lockdep_states.h | ||
| lockdep.c | ||
| locktorture.c | ||
| Makefile | ||
| mcs_spinlock.h | ||
| mutex-debug.c | ||
| mutex-debug.h | ||
| mutex.c | ||
| mutex.h | ||
| osq_lock.c | ||
| percpu-rwsem.c | ||
| qrwlock.c | ||
| qspinlock_paravirt.h | ||
| qspinlock_stat.h | ||
| qspinlock.c | ||
| rtmutex_common.h | ||
| rtmutex-debug.c | ||
| rtmutex-debug.h | ||
| rtmutex.c | ||
| rtmutex.h | ||
| rwsem.c | ||
| semaphore.c | ||
| spinlock_debug.c | ||
| spinlock.c | ||
| test-ww_mutex.c | ||