From 95bcade33a8af38755c9b0636e36a36ad3789fe6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Deacon Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:22:56 +0000 Subject: locking/qspinlock: Ensure node is initialised before updating prev->next When a locker ends up queuing on the qspinlock locking slowpath, we initialise the relevant mcs node and publish it indirectly by updating the tail portion of the lock word using xchg_tail. If we find that there was a pre-existing locker in the queue, we subsequently update their ->next field to point at our node so that we are notified when it's our turn to take the lock. This can be roughly illustrated as follows: /* Initialise the fields in node and encode a pointer to node in tail */ tail = initialise_node(node); /* * Exchange tail into the lockword using an atomic read-modify-write * operation with release semantics */ old = xchg_tail(lock, tail); /* If there was a pre-existing waiter ... */ if (old & _Q_TAIL_MASK) { prev = decode_tail(old); smp_read_barrier_depends(); /* ... then update their ->next field to point to node. WRITE_ONCE(prev->next, node); } The conditional update of prev->next therefore relies on the address dependency from the result of xchg_tail ensuring order against the prior initialisation of node. However, since the release semantics of the xchg_tail operation apply only to the write portion of the RmW, then this ordering is not guaranteed and it is possible for the CPU to return old before the writes to node have been published, consequently allowing us to point prev->next to an uninitialised node. This patch fixes the problem by making the update of prev->next a RELEASE operation, which also removes the reliance on dependency ordering. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518528177-19169-2-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/locking/qspinlock.c | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c index 38ece035039e..348c8cec1042 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c @@ -408,14 +408,15 @@ queue: */ if (old & _Q_TAIL_MASK) { prev = decode_tail(old); + /* - * The above xchg_tail() is also a load of @lock which - * generates, through decode_tail(), a pointer. The address - * dependency matches the RELEASE of xchg_tail() such that - * the subsequent access to @prev happens after. + * We must ensure that the stores to @node are observed before + * the write to prev->next. The address dependency from + * xchg_tail is not sufficient to ensure this because the read + * component of xchg_tail is unordered with respect to the + * initialisation of @node. */ - - WRITE_ONCE(prev->next, node); + smp_store_release(&prev->next, node); pv_wait_node(node, prev); arch_mcs_spin_lock_contended(&node->locked); -- cgit v1.2.3 From 11dc13224c975efcec96647a4768a6f1bb7a19a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Deacon Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:22:57 +0000 Subject: locking/qspinlock: Ensure node->count is updated before initialising node When queuing on the qspinlock, the count field for the current CPU's head node is incremented. This needn't be atomic because locking in e.g. IRQ context is balanced and so an IRQ will return with node->count as it found it. However, the compiler could in theory reorder the initialisation of node[idx] before the increment of the head node->count, causing an IRQ to overwrite the initialised node and potentially corrupt the lock state. Avoid the potential for this harmful compiler reordering by placing a barrier() between the increment of the head node->count and the subsequent node initialisation. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518528177-19169-3-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/locking/qspinlock.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c index 348c8cec1042..d880296245c5 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c @@ -379,6 +379,14 @@ queue: tail = encode_tail(smp_processor_id(), idx); node += idx; + + /* + * Ensure that we increment the head node->count before initialising + * the actual node. If the compiler is kind enough to reorder these + * stores, then an IRQ could overwrite our assignments. + */ + barrier(); + node->locked = 0; node->next = NULL; pv_init_node(node); -- cgit v1.2.3