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Message-Id: <20200331193233.15180-2-elver@google.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:32:33 +0200
From: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
To: elver@...gle.com
Cc: paulmck@...nel.org, dvyukov@...gle.com, glider@...gle.com,
andreyknvl@...gle.com, cai@....pw, kasan-dev@...glegroups.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] kcsan: Change data_race() to no longer require marking
racing accesses
Thus far, accesses marked with data_race() would still require the
racing access to be marked in some way (be it with READ_ONCE(),
WRITE_ONCE(), or data_race() itself), as otherwise KCSAN would still
report a data race. This requirement, however, seems to be unintuitive,
and some valid use-cases demand *not* marking other accesses, as it
might hide more serious bugs (e.g. diagnostic reads).
Therefore, this commit changes data_race() to no longer require marking
racing accesses (although it's still recommended if possible).
The alternative would have been introducing another variant of
data_race(), however, since usage of data_race() already needs to be
carefully reasoned about, distinguishing between these cases likely adds
more complexity in the wrong place.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200331131002.GA30975@willie-the-truck
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
---
include/linux/compiler.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index f504edebd5d7..1729bd17e9b7 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -326,9 +326,9 @@ unsigned long read_word_at_a_time(const void *addr)
#define data_race(expr) \
({ \
typeof(({ expr; })) __val; \
- kcsan_nestable_atomic_begin(); \
+ kcsan_disable_current(); \
__val = ({ expr; }); \
- kcsan_nestable_atomic_end(); \
+ kcsan_enable_current(); \
__val; \
})
#else
--
2.26.0.rc2.310.g2932bb562d-goog
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