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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 11:35:49 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] futex: Use smp_store_release() in mark_wake_futex()
Origin: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/4.11/older/patches-4.11.9-rt7.tar.xz
Upstream commit 1b367ece0d7e696cab1c8501bab282cc6a538b3f
Since the futex_q can dissapear the instruction after assigning NULL,
this really should be a RELEASE barrier. That stops loads from hitting
dead memory too.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: juri.lelli@arm.com
Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de
Cc: xlpang@redhat.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Cc: jdesfossez@efficios.com
Cc: dvhart@infradead.org
Cc: bristot@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170322104151.604296452@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
---
kernel/futex.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1290,8 +1290,7 @@ static void mark_wake_futex(struct wake_
* memory barrier is required here to prevent the following
* store to lock_ptr from getting ahead of the plist_del.
*/
- smp_wmb();
- q->lock_ptr = NULL;
+ smp_store_release(&q->lock_ptr, NULL);
}
static int wake_futex_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 uval, struct futex_q *top_waiter,