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Commit 1f3ebc82 authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney
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rcu: Restore barrier() to rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock()



Commit bb73c52b ("rcu: Don't disable preemption for Tiny and Tree
RCU readers") removed the barrier() calls from rcu_read_lock() and
rcu_write_lock() in CONFIG_PREEMPT=n&&CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=n kernels.
Within RCU, this commit was OK, but it failed to account for things like
get_user() that can pagefault and that can be reordered by the compiler.
Lack of the barrier() calls in rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock()
can cause these page faults to migrate into RCU read-side critical
sections, which in CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernels could result in too-short
grace periods and arbitrary misbehavior.  Please see commit 386afc91
("spinlocks and preemption points need to be at least compiler barriers")
and Linus's commit 66be4e66 ("rcu: locking and unlocking need to
always be at least barriers"), this last of which restores the barrier()
call to both rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock().

This commit removes barrier() calls that are no longer needed given that
the addition of them in Linus's commit noted above.  The combination of
this commit and Linus's commit effectively reverts commit bb73c52b
("rcu: Don't disable preemption for Tiny and Tree RCU readers").

Reported-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Reported-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Fix embarrassing typo located by Alan Stern. ]
parent b55bd585
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