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Commit 3b3fdf10 authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon Committed by Ingo Molnar
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locking/pvqspinlock: Order pv_unhash() after cmpxchg() on unlock slowpath



When we unlock in __pv_queued_spin_unlock(), a failed cmpxchg() on the lock
value indicates that we need to take the slow-path and unhash the
corresponding node blocked on the lock.

Since a failed cmpxchg() does not provide any memory-ordering guarantees,
it is possible that the node data could be read before the cmpxchg() on
weakly-ordered architectures and therefore return a stale value, leading
to hash corruption and/or a BUG().

This patch adds an smb_rmb() following the failed cmpxchg operation, so
that the unhashing is ordered after the lock has been checked.

Reported-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: default avatarWaiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steve Capper <Steve.Capper@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150713155830.GL2632@arm.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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