linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/3] rcu-tasks: *_ONCE() for rcu_tasks_cbs

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Message-Id: <20200215002520.15746-1-paulmck@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 14 Feb 2020 16:25:18 -0800
From:   paulmck@...nel.org
To:     rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com, 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,
        fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com, joel@...lfernandes.org,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/3] rcu-tasks: *_ONCE() for rcu_tasks_cbs_head

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>

The RCU tasks list of callbacks, rcu_tasks_cbs_head, is sampled locklessly
by rcu_tasks_kthread() when waiting for work to do.  This commit therefore
applies READ_ONCE() to that lockless sampling and WRITE_ONCE() to the
single potential store outside of rcu_tasks_kthread.

This data race was reported by KCSAN.  Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/update.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/update.c b/kernel/rcu/update.c
index 6c4b862..a27df76 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/update.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/update.c
@@ -528,7 +528,7 @@ void call_rcu_tasks(struct rcu_head *rhp, rcu_callback_t func)
 	rhp->func = func;
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rcu_tasks_cbs_lock, flags);
 	needwake = !rcu_tasks_cbs_head;
-	*rcu_tasks_cbs_tail = rhp;
+	WRITE_ONCE(*rcu_tasks_cbs_tail, rhp);
 	rcu_tasks_cbs_tail = &rhp->next;
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rcu_tasks_cbs_lock, flags);
 	/* We can't create the thread unless interrupts are enabled. */
@@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ static int __noreturn rcu_tasks_kthread(void *arg)
 		/* If there were none, wait a bit and start over. */
 		if (!list) {
 			wait_event_interruptible(rcu_tasks_cbs_wq,
-						 rcu_tasks_cbs_head);
+						 READ_ONCE(rcu_tasks_cbs_head));
 			if (!rcu_tasks_cbs_head) {
 				WARN_ON(signal_pending(current));
 				schedule_timeout_interruptible(HZ/10);
-- 
2.9.5