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Date:   Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:28:06 +0000
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Daniel Axtens <dja@...ens.net>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: READ_ONCE() + STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG == :/ (was Re: [GIT PULL]
 Please pull powerpc/linux.git powerpc-5.5-2 tag (topic/kasan-bitops))

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 02:17:08PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 9:50 PM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 11:34 AM Will Deacon <will@...nel.org> wrote:
> > > The root of my concern in all of this, and what started me looking at it in
> > > the first place, is the interaction with 'typeof()'. Inheriting 'volatile'
> > > for a pointer means that local variables in macros declared using typeof()
> > > suddenly start generating *hideous* code, particularly when pointless stack
> > > spills get stackprotector all excited.
> >
> > Yeah, removing volatile can be a bit annoying.
> >
> > For the particular case of the bitops, though, it's not an issue.
> > Since you know the type there, you can just cast it.
> >
> > And if we had the rule that READ_ONCE() was an arithmetic type, you could do
> >
> >     typeof(0+(*p)) __var;
> >
> > since you might as well get the integer promotion anyway (on the
> > non-volatile result).
> >
> > But that doesn't work with structures or unions, of course.
> >
> > I'm not entirely sure we have READ_ONCE() with a struct. I do know we
> > have it with 64-bit entities on 32-bit machines, but that's ok with
> > the "0+" trick.
> 
> I'll have my randconfig builder look for instances, so far I found one,
> see below. My feeling is that it would be better to enforce at least
> the size being a 1/2/4/8, to avoid cases where someone thinks
> the access is atomic, but it falls back on a memcpy.

I've been using something similar built on compiletime_assert_atomic_type()
and I spotted another instance in the xdp code (xskq_validate_desc()) which
tries to READ_ONCE() on a 128-bit descriptor, although a /very/ quick read
of the code suggests that this probably can't be concurrently modified if
the ring indexes are synchronised properly.

However, enabling this for 32-bit ARM is total carnage; as Linus mentioned,
a whole bunch of code appears to be relying on atomic 64-bit access of
READ_ONCE(); the perf ring buffer, io_uring, the scheduler, pm_runtime,
cpuidle, ... :(

Unfortunately, at least some of these *do* look like bugs, but I can't see
how we can fix them, not least because the first two are user ABI afaict. It
may also be that in practice we get 2x32-bit stores, and that works out fine
when storing a 32-bit virtual address. I'm not sure what (if anything) the
compiler guarantees in these cases.

Will