Commit 502b83be authored by Manfred Spraul's avatar Manfred Spraul Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

ipc/sem.c: update/correct memory barriers

commit 3ed1f8a9 upstream.

sem_lock() did not properly pair memory barriers:

!spin_is_locked() and spin_unlock_wait() are both only control barriers.
The code needs an acquire barrier, otherwise the cpu might perform read
operations before the lock test.

As no primitive exists inside <include/spinlock.h> and since it seems
noone wants another primitive, the code creates a local primitive within
ipc/sem.c.

With regards to -stable:

The change of sem_wait_array() is a bugfix, the change to sem_lock() is a
nop (just a preprocessor redefinition to improve the readability).  The
bugfix is necessary for all kernels that use sem_wait_array() (i.e.:
starting from 3.10).
Signed-off-by: default avatarManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reported-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 9ab6ec25
......@@ -252,6 +252,16 @@ static void sem_rcu_free(struct rcu_head *head)
ipc_rcu_free(head);
}
/*
* spin_unlock_wait() and !spin_is_locked() are not memory barriers, they
* are only control barriers.
* The code must pair with spin_unlock(&sem->lock) or
* spin_unlock(&sem_perm.lock), thus just the control barrier is insufficient.
*
* smp_rmb() is sufficient, as writes cannot pass the control barrier.
*/
#define ipc_smp_acquire__after_spin_is_unlocked() smp_rmb()
/*
* Wait until all currently ongoing simple ops have completed.
* Caller must own sem_perm.lock.
......@@ -275,6 +285,7 @@ static void sem_wait_array(struct sem_array *sma)
sem = sma->sem_base + i;
spin_unlock_wait(&sem->lock);
}
ipc_smp_acquire__after_spin_is_unlocked();
}
/*
......@@ -326,8 +337,13 @@ static inline int sem_lock(struct sem_array *sma, struct sembuf *sops,
/* Then check that the global lock is free */
if (!spin_is_locked(&sma->sem_perm.lock)) {
/* spin_is_locked() is not a memory barrier */
smp_mb();
/*
* We need a memory barrier with acquire semantics,
* otherwise we can race with another thread that does:
* complex_count++;
* spin_unlock(sem_perm.lock);
*/
ipc_smp_acquire__after_spin_is_unlocked();
/* Now repeat the test of complex_count:
* It can't change anymore until we drop sem->lock.
......
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