Commit 2f073848 authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney

list: Use WRITE_ONCE() when initializing list_head structures

Code that does lockless emptiness testing of non-RCU lists is relying
on INIT_LIST_HEAD() to write the list head's ->next pointer atomically,
particularly when INIT_LIST_HEAD() is invoked from list_del_init().
This commit therefore adds WRITE_ONCE() to this function's pointer stores
that could affect the head's ->next pointer.
Reported-by: default avatarAndrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
parent 7d86dccf
......@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
static inline void INIT_LIST_HEAD(struct list_head *list)
{
list->next = list;
WRITE_ONCE(list->next, list);
list->prev = list;
}
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