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[PATCH RT 09/15] sched,preempt: Fix preempt_count manipulations

From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: 2016-07-12 14:32:27
Also in: linux-rt-users, lkml
Subsystem: generic include/asm header files, the rest · Maintainers: Arnd Bergmann, Linus Torvalds

3.18.36-rt38-rc1 stable review patch.
If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

Vikram reported that his ARM64 compiler managed to 'optimize' away the
preempt_count manipulations in code like:

	preempt_enable_no_resched();
	put_user();
	preempt_disable();

Irrespective of that fact that that is horrible code that should be
fixed for many reasons, it does highlight a deficiency in the generic
preempt_count manipulators. As it is never right to combine/elide
preempt_count manipulations like this.

Therefore sprinkle some volatile in the two generic accessors to
ensure the compiler is aware of the fact that the preempt_count is
observed outside of the regular program-order view and thus cannot be
optimized away like this.

x86; the only arch not using the generic code is not affected as we
do all this in asm in order to use the segment base per-cpu stuff.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable-rt@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Fixes: a787870924db ("sched, arch: Create asm/preempt.h")
Reported-by: Vikram Mulukutla <redacted>
Tested-by: Vikram Mulukutla <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 include/asm-generic/preempt.h | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/preempt.h b/include/asm-generic/preempt.h
index 1cd3f5d767a8..ed1881dd9b36 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/preempt.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/preempt.h
@@ -7,10 +7,10 @@
 
 static __always_inline int preempt_count(void)
 {
-	return current_thread_info()->preempt_count;
+	return READ_ONCE(current_thread_info()->preempt_count);
 }
 
-static __always_inline int *preempt_count_ptr(void)
+static __always_inline volatile int *preempt_count_ptr(void)
 {
 	return &current_thread_info()->preempt_count;
 }
-- 
2.8.1

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