Commit 2ecedd75 authored by Andy Lutomirski's avatar Andy Lutomirski Committed by Thomas Gleixner

membarrier: Add an actual barrier before rseq_preempt()

It seems that most RSEQ membarrier users will expect any stores done before
the membarrier() syscall to be visible to the target task(s).  While this
is extremely likely to be true in practice, nothing actually guarantees it
by a strict reading of the x86 manuals.  Rather than providing this
guarantee by accident and potentially causing a problem down the road, just
add an explicit barrier.

Fixes: 70216e18 ("membarrier: Provide core serializing command, *_SYNC_CORE")
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d3e7197e034fa4852afcf370ca49c30496e58e40.1607058304.git.luto@kernel.org
parent a493d1ca
......@@ -40,6 +40,14 @@ static void ipi_mb(void *info)
static void ipi_rseq(void *info)
{
/*
* Ensure that all stores done by the calling thread are visible
* to the current task before the current task resumes. We could
* probably optimize this away on most architectures, but by the
* time we've already sent an IPI, the cost of the extra smp_mb()
* is negligible.
*/
smp_mb();
rseq_preempt(current);
}
......
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