linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] locking/qrwlock: Fix ordering in queued_write_lock

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Thu, 15 Apr 2021 12:53:06 -0400
From:   Waiman Long <llong@...hat.com>
To:     Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Ali Saidi <alisaidi@...zon.com>
Cc:     benh@...nel.crashing.org, boqun.feng@...il.com,
        catalin.marinas@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        mingo@...hat.com, peterz@...radead.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        steve.capper@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] locking/qrwlock: Fix ordering in
 queued_write_lock_slowpath

On 4/15/21 12:45 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
>
>>> With that in mind, it would probably be a good idea to eyeball the qspinlock
>>> slowpath as well, as that uses both atomic_cond_read_acquire() and
>>> atomic_try_cmpxchg_relaxed().
>> It seems plausible that the same thing could occur here in qspinlock:
>>            if ((val & _Q_TAIL_MASK) == tail) {
>>                    if (atomic_try_cmpxchg_relaxed(&lock->val, &val, _Q_LOCKED_VAL))
>>                            goto release; /* No contention */
>>            }
> Just been thinking about this, but I don't see an issue here because
> everybody is queuing the same way (i.e. we don't have a mechanism to jump
> the queue like we do for qrwlock) and the tail portion of the lock word
> isn't susceptible to ABA. That is, once we're at the head of the queue
> and we've seen the lock become unlocked via atomic_cond_read_acquire(),
> then we know we hold it.
>
> So qspinlock looks fine to me, but I'd obviously value anybody else's
> opinion on that.

I agree with your assessment of qspinlock. I think qspinlock is fine.

Cheers,
Longman