linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4 11/15] selftests: KVM: Handle compiler optimizations in ucall

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Date:   Tue,  9 Aug 2022 20:00:29 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Ricardo Koller <ricarkol@...gle.com>,
        Reiji Watanabe <reijiw@...gle.com>,
        Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Jones <drjones@...hat.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 11/15] selftests: KVM: Handle compiler optimizations in ucall

From: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@...gle.com>

[ Upstream commit 9e2f6498efbbc880d7caa7935839e682b64fe5a6 ]

The selftests, when built with newer versions of clang, is found
to have over optimized guests' ucall() function, and eliminating
the stores for uc.cmd (perhaps due to no immediate readers). This
resulted in the userspace side always reading a value of '0', and
causing multiple test failures.

As a result, prevent the compiler from optimizing the stores in
ucall() with WRITE_ONCE().

Suggested-by: Ricardo Koller <ricarkol@...gle.com>
Suggested-by: Reiji Watanabe <reijiw@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Raghavendra Rao Ananta <rananta@...gle.com>
Message-Id: <20220615185706.1099208-1-rananta@...gle.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/aarch64/ucall.c | 9 ++++-----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/aarch64/ucall.c b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/aarch64/ucall.c
index 6cd91970fbad..3b2a426070c4 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/aarch64/ucall.c
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/kvm/lib/aarch64/ucall.c
@@ -73,20 +73,19 @@ void ucall_uninit(struct kvm_vm *vm)
 
 void ucall(uint64_t cmd, int nargs, ...)
 {
-	struct ucall uc = {
-		.cmd = cmd,
-	};
+	struct ucall uc = {};
 	va_list va;
 	int i;
 
+	WRITE_ONCE(uc.cmd, cmd);
 	nargs = nargs <= UCALL_MAX_ARGS ? nargs : UCALL_MAX_ARGS;
 
 	va_start(va, nargs);
 	for (i = 0; i < nargs; ++i)
-		uc.args[i] = va_arg(va, uint64_t);
+		WRITE_ONCE(uc.args[i], va_arg(va, uint64_t));
 	va_end(va);
 
-	*ucall_exit_mmio_addr = (vm_vaddr_t)&uc;
+	WRITE_ONCE(*ucall_exit_mmio_addr, (vm_vaddr_t)&uc);
 }
 
 uint64_t get_ucall(struct kvm_vm *vm, uint32_t vcpu_id, struct ucall *uc)
-- 
2.35.1