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Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid

From Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid
Date 2015-09-18 16:00 +0200
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On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 03:44:53PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 09/18, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > +static inline int atomic_read_ctrl(atomic_t *v)
> > +{
> > +	int val = atomic_read(v);
> > +	smp_read_barrier_depends(); /* Enforce control dependency. */
> > +	return val;
> > +}
> 
> Help. I am starting to think that the control dependencies is even more
> hard to understand that memory barriers...

Hehe, think of then as a load-store barrier; due to the 'impossibility'
of speculative stores (we'd see all kinds of random crap if you could
speculate stores).

> So I assume that if we have
> 
> 	int X = 0;
> 	atomic_t Y = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
> 
> 	void w(void)
> 	{
> 		X = 1;
> 		atomic_inc_return(&Y);
> 	}
> 
> then
> 
> 	void r(void)
> 	{
> 		if (atomic_read_ctrl(&Y))
> 			BUG_ON(X == 0);
> 	}
> 
> should be correct?  Why?

Nope, because its (again) a load-load order you have there.
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[PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2015-09-17 15:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2015-09-17 18:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2015-09-17 18:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2015-09-17 19:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2015-09-17 20:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2015-09-17 20:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2015-09-17 20:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2015-09-17 20:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 11:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 11:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 11:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> - 2015-09-18 14:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 14:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-18 18:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2015-09-18 11:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2015-09-18 11:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 11:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 13:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2015-09-18 13:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2015-09-18 14:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 14:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 14:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> - 2015-09-18 14:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 15:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2015-09-18 15:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 16:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2015-09-18 16:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2015-09-18 16:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> - 2015-09-22 10:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2015-09-18 18:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 18:30 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-18 18:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2015-09-18 15:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2015-09-18 15:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> - 2015-09-18 16:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2015-09-18 17:10 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> - 2015-09-18 17:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-18 18:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] kernel: fix data race in put_pid "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-09-17 20:00 +0200

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