linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 11/13] rust: lock: add `Guard::do

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Date:   Tue, 11 Apr 2023 23:25:19 -0700
From:   Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
To:     Wedson Almeida Filho <wedsonaf@...il.com>
Cc:     rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org, Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
        Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@...il.com>,
        Gary Guo <gary@...yguo.net>,
        Björn Roy Baron <bjorn3_gh@...tonmail.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Wedson Almeida Filho <walmeida@...rosoft.com>,
        Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <yakoyoku@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 11/13] rust: lock: add `Guard::do_unlocked`

On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 02:45:41AM -0300, Wedson Almeida Filho wrote:
[...]
> +
> +    unsafe fn relock(ptr: *mut Self::State, guard_state: &mut Self::GuardState) {
> +        let _ = match guard_state {
> +            // SAFETY: The safety requiments of this function ensure that `ptr` has been
> +            // initialised.
> +            None => unsafe { Self::lock(ptr) },
> +            // SAFETY: The safety requiments of this function ensure that `ptr` has been
> +            // initialised.
> +            Some(_) => unsafe { Self::lock_irqsave(ptr) },
> +        };
> +    }
>  }
>  

One thing I'm little worried about the above is that we don't store back
the new GuardState into `guard_state`, the particular case I'm worried
about is as follow:

	// IRQ is enabled.
	// Disabling IRQ
	unsafe { bindings::local_irq_disable(); }

	let mut g = unsafe { SpinLockBackend::lock(&mut lock as *mut _) };
	// `g` records irq state is "irq disabled"

	unsafe { SpinLockBackend::unlock(&mut lock as *mut _, &g); }
	// restore into "irq disabled" mode.
	// IRQ is disabled.

	// Enabling IRQ
	unsafe { bindings::local_irq_enable(); }
	// IRQ is enabled.

	unsafe { SpinLockBackend::relock(&mut lock as *mut _, &mut g) }
	// `g` still records irq state is "irq disabled"

	unsafe { SpinLockBackend::unlock(&mut lock as *mut _, &g); }
	// restore into "irq disabled" mode.
	// IRQ is disabled.


This looks pretty scary to me, I would expect `relock()` updates the
latest GuardState to the guard. Any reason it's implemented this way?

Regards,
Boqun

>  // SAFETY: The underlying kernel `spinlock_t` object ensures mutual exclusion. We use the `irqsave`
>  // variant of the C lock acquisition functions to disable interrupts and retrieve the original
>  // interrupt state, and the `irqrestore` variant of the lock release functions to restore the state
>  // in `unlock` -- we use the guard context to determine which method was used to acquire the lock.
> -unsafe impl super::IrqSaveBackend for SpinLockBackend {
> +unsafe impl IrqSaveBackend for SpinLockBackend {
>      unsafe fn lock_irqsave(ptr: *mut Self::State) -> Self::GuardState {
>          // SAFETY: The safety requirements of this function ensure that `ptr` points to valid
>          // memory, and that it has been initialised before.
> -- 
> 2.34.1
>