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Waiman Long authored
Without using WRITE_ONCE(), the compiler can potentially break a write into multiple smaller ones (store tearing). So a read from the same data by another task concurrently may return a partial result. This can result in a kernel crash if the data is a memory address that is being dereferenced. This patch changes all write to rwsem->owner to use WRITE_ONCE() to make sure that store tearing will not happen. READ_ONCE() may not be needed for rwsem->owner as long as the value is only used for comparison and not dereferencing. Signed-off-by:
Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com> Signed-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hpe.com> Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hpe.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463534783-38814-3-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.comSigned-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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