Re: [PATCH 5/8] membarrier, kthread: Use _ONCE accessors for task->mm

membarrier reads cpu_rq(remote cpu)->curr->mm without locking.  Use
READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() to remove the data races.

Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
---
 fs/exec.c                 | 2 +-
 kernel/kthread.c          | 4 ++--
 kernel/sched/membarrier.c | 6 +++---
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 18594f11c31f..2e63dea83411 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c

@@ -1007,7 +1007,7 @@ static int exec_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
 	local_irq_disable();
 	active_mm = tsk->active_mm;
 	tsk->active_mm = mm;
-	tsk->mm = mm;
+	WRITE_ONCE(tsk->mm, mm);  /* membarrier reads this without locks */
 	/*
 	 * This prevents preemption while active_mm is being loaded and
 	 * it and mm are being updated, which could cause problems for

diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 8275b415acec..4962794e02d5 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c

@@ -1322,7 +1322,7 @@ void kthread_use_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
 		mmgrab(mm);
 		tsk->active_mm = mm;
 	}
-	tsk->mm = mm;
+	WRITE_ONCE(tsk->mm, mm);  /* membarrier reads this without locks */
 	membarrier_update_current_mm(mm);
 	switch_mm_irqs_off(active_mm, mm, tsk);
 	membarrier_finish_switch_mm(atomic_read(&mm->membarrier_state));

@@ -1363,7 +1363,7 @@ void kthread_unuse_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
 	smp_mb__after_spinlock();
 	sync_mm_rss(mm);
 	local_irq_disable();
-	tsk->mm = NULL;
+	WRITE_ONCE(tsk->mm, NULL);  /* membarrier reads this without locks */
 	membarrier_update_current_mm(NULL);
 	/* active_mm is still 'mm' */
 	enter_lazy_tlb(mm, tsk);

diff --git a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
index 3173b063d358..c32c32a2441e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c

@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ static int membarrier_private_expedited(int flags, int cpu_id)
 			goto out;
 		rcu_read_lock();
 		p = rcu_dereference(cpu_rq(cpu_id)->curr);
-		if (!p || p->mm != mm) {
+		if (!p || READ_ONCE(p->mm) != mm) {
 			rcu_read_unlock();
 			goto out;
 		}

@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ static int membarrier_private_expedited(int flags, int cpu_id)
 			struct task_struct *p;
 
 			p = rcu_dereference(cpu_rq(cpu)->curr);
-			if (p && p->mm == mm)
+			if (p && READ_ONCE(p->mm) == mm)

 				__cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, tmpmask);
 		}
 		rcu_read_unlock();

@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ static int sync_runqueues_membarrier_state(struct mm_struct *mm)
 		struct task_struct *p;
 
 		p = rcu_dereference(rq->curr);
-		if (p && p->mm == mm)
+		if (p && READ_ONCE(p->mm) == mm)
 			__cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, tmpmask);
 	}
 	rcu_read_unlock();

-- 
2.31.1