From 8238b4579866b7c1bb99883cfe102a43db5506ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mikulas Patocka Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 09:17:08 -0400 Subject: wait_on_bit: add an acquire memory barrier There are several places in the kernel where wait_on_bit is not followed by a memory barrier (for example, in drivers/md/dm-bufio.c:new_read). On architectures with weak memory ordering, it may happen that memory accesses that follow wait_on_bit are reordered before wait_on_bit and they may return invalid data. Fix this class of bugs by introducing a new function "test_bit_acquire" that works like test_bit, but has acquire memory ordering semantics. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Acked-by: Will Deacon Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/sched/wait_bit.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/sched/wait_bit.c') diff --git a/kernel/sched/wait_bit.c b/kernel/sched/wait_bit.c index d4788f810b55..0b1cd985dc27 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/wait_bit.c +++ b/kernel/sched/wait_bit.c @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ __wait_on_bit(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, struct wait_bit_queue_entry *wbq_ prepare_to_wait(wq_head, &wbq_entry->wq_entry, mode); if (test_bit(wbq_entry->key.bit_nr, wbq_entry->key.flags)) ret = (*action)(&wbq_entry->key, mode); - } while (test_bit(wbq_entry->key.bit_nr, wbq_entry->key.flags) && !ret); + } while (test_bit_acquire(wbq_entry->key.bit_nr, wbq_entry->key.flags) && !ret); finish_wait(wq_head, &wbq_entry->wq_entry); -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b