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Date:	Fri,  4 Dec 2015 16:15:28 -0800
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	mingo@...nel.org, jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
	josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
	dvhart@...ux.intel.com, fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com,
	bobby.prani@...il.com,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/4] list: Use WRITE_ONCE() when adding to lists and hlists

Code that does lockless emptiness testing of non-RCU lists is relying
on the list-addition code to write the list head's ->next pointer
atomically.  This commit therefore adds WRITE_ONCE() to list-addition
pointer stores that could affect the head's ->next pointer.

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 include/linux/list.h | 8 ++++----
 lib/list_debug.c     | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/list.h b/include/linux/list.h
index 993395a2e55c..d7e31fe398b3 100644
--- a/include/linux/list.h
+++ b/include/linux/list.h
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ static inline void __list_add(struct list_head *new,
 	next->prev = new;
 	new->next = next;
 	new->prev = prev;
-	prev->next = new;
+	WRITE_ONCE(prev->next, new);
 }
 #else
 extern void __list_add(struct list_head *new,
@@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ static inline void hlist_add_head(struct hlist_node *n, struct hlist_head *h)
 	n->next = first;
 	if (first)
 		first->pprev = &n->next;
-	h->first = n;
+	WRITE_ONCE(h->first, n);
 	n->pprev = &h->first;
 }
 
@@ -653,14 +653,14 @@ static inline void hlist_add_before(struct hlist_node *n,
 	n->pprev = next->pprev;
 	n->next = next;
 	next->pprev = &n->next;
-	*(n->pprev) = n;
+	WRITE_ONCE(*(n->pprev), n);
 }
 
 static inline void hlist_add_behind(struct hlist_node *n,
 				    struct hlist_node *prev)
 {
 	n->next = prev->next;
-	prev->next = n;
+	WRITE_ONCE(prev->next, n);
 	n->pprev = &prev->next;
 
 	if (n->next)
diff --git a/lib/list_debug.c b/lib/list_debug.c
index c24c2f7e296f..3859bf63561c 100644
--- a/lib/list_debug.c
+++ b/lib/list_debug.c
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ void __list_add(struct list_head *new,
 	next->prev = new;
 	new->next = next;
 	new->prev = prev;
-	prev->next = new;
+	WRITE_ONCE(prev->next, new);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__list_add);
 
-- 
2.5.2

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