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rculist: Use WRITE_ONCE() when deleting from reader-visible list

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The various RCU list-deletion macros (list_del_rcu(),
hlist_del_init_rcu(), hlist_del_rcu(), hlist_bl_del_init_rcu(),
hlist_bl_del_rcu(), hlist_nulls_del_init_rcu(), and hlist_nulls_del_rcu())
do plain stores into the ->next pointer of the preceding list elemment.
Unfortunately, the compiler is within its rights to (for example) use
byte-at-a-time writes to update the pointer, which would fatally confuse
concurrent readers.  This patch therefore adds the needed WRITE_ONCE()
macros.

KernelThreadSanitizer (KTSAN) reported the __hlist_del() issue, which
is a problem when __hlist_del() is invoked by hlist_del_rcu().

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney 2015-09-18 08:45:22 -07:00
parent e62e3f620b
commit 7f5f873c6a
3 changed files with 8 additions and 5 deletions
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include/linux/list.h
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@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ static inline void list_add_tail(struct list_head *new, struct list_head *head)
static inline void __list_del(struct list_head * prev, struct list_head * next)
{
next->prev = prev;
prev->next = next;
WRITE_ONCE(prev->next, next);
}
/**
@ -615,7 +615,8 @@ static inline void __hlist_del(struct hlist_node *n)
{
struct hlist_node *next = n->next;
struct hlist_node **pprev = n->pprev;
*pprev = next;
WRITE_ONCE(*pprev, next);
if (next)
next->pprev = pprev;
}