linux-kernel - [tip: x86/urgent] membarrier: Add an actual barrier before rseq

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Date:   Wed, 09 Dec 2020 08:42:47 -0000
From:   "tip-bot2 for Andy Lutomirski" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [tip: x86/urgent] membarrier: Add an actual barrier before rseq_preempt()

The following commit has been merged into the x86/urgent branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     2ecedd7569080fd05c1a457e8af2165afecfa29f
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/2ecedd7569080fd05c1a457e8af2165afecfa29f
Author:        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
AuthorDate:    Thu, 03 Dec 2020 21:07:04 -08:00
Committer:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CommitterDate: Wed, 09 Dec 2020 09:37:43 +01:00

membarrier: Add an actual barrier before rseq_preempt()

It seems that most RSEQ membarrier users will expect any stores done before
the membarrier() syscall to be visible to the target task(s).  While this
is extremely likely to be true in practice, nothing actually guarantees it
by a strict reading of the x86 manuals.  Rather than providing this
guarantee by accident and potentially causing a problem down the road, just
add an explicit barrier.

Fixes: 70216e18e519 ("membarrier: Provide core serializing command, *_SYNC_CORE")
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d3e7197e034fa4852afcf370ca49c30496e58e40.1607058304.git.luto@kernel.org

---
 kernel/sched/membarrier.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
index e23e74d..7d98ef5 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
@@ -40,6 +40,14 @@ static void ipi_mb(void *info)
 
 static void ipi_rseq(void *info)
 {
+	/*
+	 * Ensure that all stores done by the calling thread are visible
+	 * to the current task before the current task resumes.  We could
+	 * probably optimize this away on most architectures, but by the
+	 * time we've already sent an IPI, the cost of the extra smp_mb()
+	 * is negligible.
+	 */
+	smp_mb();
 	rseq_preempt(current);
 }