Re: [PATCH V3] sbitmap: order READ/WRITE freed instance and setting clear bit

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On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 11:52:17AM -0700, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 09:13:51AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > Inside sbitmap_queue_clear(), once the clear bit is set, it will be
> > visiable to allocation path immediately. Meantime READ/WRITE on old
> > associated instance(such as request in case of blk-mq) may be
> > out-of-order with the setting clear bit, so race with re-allocation
> > may be triggered.
> > 
> > Adds one memory barrier for ordering READ/WRITE of the freed associated
> > instance with setting clear bit for avoiding race with re-allocation.
> 
> Just to make sure I understand, the race is something like this?
> 
> Thread 1			Thread 2
> sbitmap_queue_get()
> ...
> write to request _____
> sbitmap_queue_clear() \
> 		       \	sbitmap_queue_get()
> 		        \______ observes write
> 
> If so, you can add
> 
> Reviewed-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@xxxxxx>

Yeah, it is one normal race between freeing and allocating.

Thanks,
Ming



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