linux-kernel - [PATCH -next 2/2] Revert "mm/kmemleak: annotate various data races obj->ptr"

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Date:   Tue,  3 Mar 2020 14:28:36 -0500
From:   Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
To:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     elver@...gle.com, catalin.marinas@....com, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
Subject: [PATCH -next 2/2] Revert "mm/kmemleak: annotate various data races obj->ptr"

This reverts commit a03184297d546c6531cdd40878f1f50732d3bac9.

Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
---
 mm/kmemleak.c | 9 ++-------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index 788dc5509539..e362dc3d2028 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -1169,12 +1169,7 @@ static bool update_checksum(struct kmemleak_object *object)
 	u32 old_csum = object->checksum;
 
 	kasan_disable_current();
-	/*
-	 * crc32() will dereference object->pointer. If an unstable value was
-	 * returned due to a data race, it will be corrected in the next scan.
-	 */
-	object->checksum = data_race(crc32(0, (void *)object->pointer,
-					   object->size));
+	object->checksum = crc32(0, (void *)object->pointer, object->size);
 	kasan_enable_current();
 
 	return object->checksum != old_csum;
@@ -1248,7 +1243,7 @@ static void scan_block(void *_start, void *_end,
 			break;
 
 		kasan_disable_current();
-		pointer = data_race(*ptr);
+		pointer = *ptr;
 		kasan_enable_current();
 
 		untagged_ptr = (unsigned long)kasan_reset_tag((void *)pointer);
-- 
1.8.3.1