Re: [PATCH v3 01/16] perf: Ensure perf_guest_cbs aren't reloaded between !NULL check and deref

On Wed, Nov 10, 2021, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

On 11/4/21 15:18, Sean Christopherson wrote:

quoted

If I'm interpeting Paolo's suggestion
correctly, he's pointing out that oustanding stores to the function pointers in
@cbs need to complete before assigning a non-NULL pointer to perf_guest_cbs,
otherwise a perf event handler may see a valid pointer with half-baked callbacks.

I think smp_store_release() with a comment would be appropriate, assuming my
above interpretation is correct.

Yes, exactly.  It should even be rcu_assign_pointer(), matching the
synchronize_rcu()

And perf_guest_cbs should be tagged __rcu and accessed accordingly.  Which is
effectively what this version (poorly) implemented with a homebrewed mix of
{READ,WRITE}_ONCE, lockdep(), and synchronize_rcu().

in patch 1 (and the change can be done in patch 1, too).

Ya, the change needs to go into patch 1.