On powerpc systems, spinlock acquisition does not order prior stores against later loads. This means that this statement: rfcp->rfc_next = NULL; Can be reordered to follow this statement: WRITE_ONCE(*rfcpp, rfcp); Which is then a data race with rcu_torture_fwd_prog_cr(), specifically, this statement: rfcpn = READ_ONCE(rfcp->rfc_next) KCSAN located this data race, which represents a real failure on powerpc. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <kasan-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c index 44cc455e1b615..cafe047d046e8 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c @@ -2630,7 +2630,7 @@ static void rcu_torture_fwd_cb_cr(struct rcu_head *rhp) spin_lock_irqsave(&rfp->rcu_fwd_lock, flags); rfcpp = rfp->rcu_fwd_cb_tail; rfp->rcu_fwd_cb_tail = &rfcp->rfc_next; - WRITE_ONCE(*rfcpp, rfcp); + smp_store_release(rfcpp, rfcp); WRITE_ONCE(rfp->n_launders_cb, rfp->n_launders_cb + 1); i = ((jiffies - rfp->rcu_fwd_startat) / (HZ / FWD_CBS_HIST_DIV)); if (i >= ARRAY_SIZE(rfp->n_launders_hist)) -- 2.40.1
