> 2023年7月18日 21:49，Joel Fernandes <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 写道：
>
> On 7/17/23 14:03, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>> From: Alan Huang <mmpgouride@xxxxxxxxx>
>> When the objects managed by rculist_nulls are allocated with
>> SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, old readers may still hold references to an object
>> even though it is just now being added, which means the modification of
>> ->next is visible to readers. This patch therefore uses WRITE_ONCE()
>> for assignments to ->next.
>> Signed-off-by: Alan Huang <mmpgouride@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Did we ever conclude that the READ_ONCE() counterparts were not needed? ;-)
Read-side is already protected by rcu_dereference_raw() in hlist_nulls_for_each_entry_{rcu, safe}.
>
> But incremental progress and all, so this LGTM:
> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> thanks,
>
> - Joel
>
>
>> ---
>> include/linux/rculist_nulls.h | 4 ++--
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> diff --git a/include/linux/rculist_nulls.h b/include/linux/rculist_nulls.h
>> index ba4c00dd8005..89186c499dd4 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/rculist_nulls.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/rculist_nulls.h
>> @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static inline void hlist_nulls_add_head_rcu(struct hlist_nulls_node *n,
>> {
>> struct hlist_nulls_node *first = h->first;
>> - n->next = first;
>> + WRITE_ONCE(n->next, first);
>> WRITE_ONCE(n->pprev, &h->first);
>> rcu_assign_pointer(hlist_nulls_first_rcu(h), n);
>> if (!is_a_nulls(first))
>> @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ static inline void hlist_nulls_add_tail_rcu(struct hlist_nulls_node *n,
>> last = i;
>> if (last) {
>> - n->next = last->next;
>> + WRITE_ONCE(n->next, last->next);
>> n->pprev = &last->next;
>> rcu_assign_pointer(hlist_nulls_next_rcu(last), n);
>> } else {
>
