The quilt patch titled Subject: mm/page_reporting: replace rcu_access_pointer() with rcu_dereference_protected() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-page_reporting-replace-rcu_access_pointer-with-rcu_dereference_protected.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/page_reporting: replace rcu_access_pointer() with rcu_dereference_protected() Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 17:59:42 +0000 Page reporting fetches pr_dev_info using rcu_access_pointer(), which is for safely fetching a pointer that will not be dereferenced but could concurrently updated. The code indeed does not dereference pr_dev_info after fetching it using rcu_access_pointer(), but it fetches the pointer while concurrent updates to the pointer is avoided by holding the update side lock, page_reporting_mutex. In the case, rcu_dereference_protected() should be used instead because it provides better readability and performance on some cases, as rcu_dereference_protected() avoids use of READ_ONCE(). Replace the rcu_access_pointer() calls with rcu_dereference_protected(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221228175942.149491-1-sj@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 36e66c554b5c ("mm: introduce Reported pages") Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_reporting.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/mm/page_reporting.c~mm-page_reporting-replace-rcu_access_pointer-with-rcu_dereference_protected +++ a/mm/page_reporting.c @@ -356,7 +356,8 @@ int page_reporting_register(struct page_ mutex_lock(&page_reporting_mutex); /* nothing to do if already in use */ - if (rcu_access_pointer(pr_dev_info)) { + if (rcu_dereference_protected(pr_dev_info, + lockdep_is_held(&page_reporting_mutex))) { err = -EBUSY; goto err_out; } @@ -401,7 +402,8 @@ void page_reporting_unregister(struct pa { mutex_lock(&page_reporting_mutex); - if (rcu_access_pointer(pr_dev_info) == prdev) { + if (prdev == rcu_dereference_protected(pr_dev_info, + lockdep_is_held(&page_reporting_mutex))) { /* Disable page reporting notification */ RCU_INIT_POINTER(pr_dev_info, NULL); synchronize_rcu(); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from sj@xxxxxxxxxx are mm-damon-core-update-kernel-doc-comments-for-damos-action-supports-of-each-damon-operations-set.patch mm-damon-core-update-kernel-doc-comments-for-damos-filters-supports-of-each-damon-operations-set.patch docs-mm-damon-index-mention-damos-on-the-intro.patch docs-admin-guide-mm-damon-usage-update-damos-actions-filters-supports-of-each-damon-operations-set.patch docs-mm-damon-add-a-maintainer-profile-for-damon.patch maintainers-damon-link-maintainer-profile-git-trees-and-website.patch selftests-damon-sysfs-hide-expected-write-failures.patch selftests-damon-debugfs_rm_non_contexts-hide-expected-write-error-messages.patch scripts-spelling-add-a-few-more-typos.patch