The rnp->qsmask is locklessly accessed from rcutree_dying_cpu(). This may help avoid load/store tearing due to concurrent access, KCSAN issues, and preserve sanity of people reading the mask in tracing. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/rcu/tree.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c index 0ca21ac0f064..5ec97e3f7468 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c @@ -2106,7 +2106,7 @@ int rcutree_dying_cpu(unsigned int cpu) if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU)) return 0; - blkd = !!(rnp->qsmask & rdp->grpmask); + blkd = !!(READ_ONCE(rnp->qsmask) & rdp->grpmask); trace_rcu_grace_period(rcu_state.name, READ_ONCE(rnp->gp_seq), blkd ? TPS("cpuofl-bgp") : TPS("cpuofl")); return 0; -- 2.37.2.789.g6183377224-goog