From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756061AbdJJJ7n convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2017 05:59:43 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:44096 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755563AbdJJJ7m (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2017 05:59:42 -0400 DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mx1.redhat.com 7E734356F8 Authentication-Results: ext-mx06.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: ext-mx06.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; spf=fail smtp.mailfrom=dhowells@redhat.com Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <8079.1507628146@warthog.procyon.org.uk> References: <8079.1507628146@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <1507594969-8347-12-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20171010001951.GA6476@linux.vnet.ibm.com> To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mark.rutland@arm.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, will.deacon@arm.com, Jonathan Corbet , Alexander Kuleshov Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 12/15] lib/assoc_array: Remove smp_read_barrier_depends() MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <8367.1507629579.1@warthog.procyon.org.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 10:59:39 +0100 Message-ID: <8368.1507629579@warthog.procyon.org.uk> X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.30]); Tue, 10 Oct 2017 09:59:42 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Howells wrote: > Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > static inline void *assoc_array_ptr_to_leaf(const struct assoc_array_ptr *x) > > { > > - return (void *)((unsigned long)x & ~ASSOC_ARRAY_PTR_TYPE_MASK); > > + return (void *)((unsigned long)READ_ONCE(x) & /* Address dependency. */ > > + ~ASSOC_ARRAY_PTR_TYPE_MASK); > > } > > This is the wrong place to do this. assoc_array_ptr_to_leaf() is effectively > no more than a special cast; it removes a metadata bit from a pointer. x is > the value we're modifying, not *x, and x was read by the caller. Also, x is not a pointer you can read from, so if READ_ONCE(x) ever effects a memory access, you might get an oops. David