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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Hernan Ponce de Leon <hernan.poncedeleon@huaweicloud.com>,
	peterz@infradead.org, mingo@redhat.com, will@kernel.org,
	longman@redhat.com, boqun.feng@gmail.com, akpm@osdl.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de, joel@joelfernandes.org, paulmck@kernel.org,
	stern@rowland.harvard.edu, diogo.behrens@huawei.com,
	jonas.oberhauser@huawei.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Hernan Ponce de Leon <hernanl.leon@huawei.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix data race in mark_rt_mutex_waiters
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 06:58:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <562c883b-b2c3-3a27-f045-97e7e3281e0b@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230120135525.25561-1-hernan.poncedeleon@huaweicloud.com>

On 1/20/2023 5:55 AM, Hernan Ponce de Leon wrote:
> From: Hernan Ponce de Leon <hernanl.leon@huawei.com>
> 

>   kernel/locking/rtmutex.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
> index 010cf4e6d0b8..7ed9472edd48 100644
> --- a/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
> +++ b/kernel/locking/rtmutex.c
> @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ static __always_inline void mark_rt_mutex_waiters(struct rt_mutex_base *lock)
>   	unsigned long owner, *p = (unsigned long *) &lock->owner;
>   
>   	do {
> -		owner = *p;
> +		owner = READ_ONCE(*p);
>   	} while (cmpxchg_relaxed(p, owner,


I don't see how this makes any difference at all.
*p can be read a dozen times and it's fine; cmpxchg has barrier semantics for compilers afaics



  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-20 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-20 13:55 Hernan Ponce de Leon
2023-01-20 14:58 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2023-01-20 15:54   ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-01-22 15:24     ` Hernan Ponce de Leon
2023-01-23 16:40       ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-01-23 17:34         ` Alan Stern
2023-01-23 17:48           ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-01-23 20:02           ` Jonas Oberhauser
2023-01-24 14:57         ` Hernan Ponce de Leon
2023-01-24 15:42           ` Waiman Long
2023-01-24 15:52             ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-01-24 16:04               ` Waiman Long
2023-01-26  9:42                 ` Hernan Ponce de Leon
2023-01-26 12:20                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-01-26 14:20                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-01-26 21:07                     ` Hernan Ponce de Leon
2023-01-26 22:10                       ` David Laight
2023-01-27  1:46                         ` Waiman Long
2023-03-01 16:32                           ` lock_torture results for different patches: Antonio Paolillo
2023-03-06  7:58                             ` Hernan Ponce de Leon
2023-03-10 17:11                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-01-24 16:12           ` [PATCH] Fix data race in mark_rt_mutex_waiters Paul E. McKenney
2023-01-20 16:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2023-01-20 16:58   ` David Laight

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