linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH for 5.4 0/7] Membarrier fixes and cleanups

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Message-ID: <680386266.3864.1569426635751.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com>
Date:   Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:50:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     paulmck <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Russell King, ARM Linux" <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>,
        Chris Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@...dex.ru>,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH for 5.4 0/7] Membarrier fixes and cleanups

----- On Sep 25, 2019, at 4:07 AM, Peter Zijlstra peterz@...radead.org wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 10:55:32AM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>> ----- On Sep 23, 2019, at 5:06 AM, Peter Zijlstra peterz@...radead.org wrote:
>> 
>> > On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 01:36:58PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >> 
>> >> Those series of fixes and cleanups are initially motivated by the report
>> >> of race in membarrier, which can load p->mm->membarrier_state after mm
>> >> has been freed (use-after-free).
>> >> 
>> > 
>> > The lot looks good to me; what do you want done with them (them being
>> > RFC and all) ?
>> 
>> I can either re-send them without the RFC tag, or you can pick them directly
>> through the scheduler tree.
> 
> I've picked them up (and fixed them up, they didn't apply to tip) and
> merge them with Eric's task_rcu_dereference() patches.
> 
> I'll push it out in a bit.

Thanks Peter!

Mathieu


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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com