This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled memtest: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE in memory scanning to the 6.7-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: memtest-use-read-write-_once-in-memory-scanning.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 66a6d72d4690c84f068d30a9cd9b40b92f2648d6 Author: Qiang Zhang <qiang4.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Mar 12 16:04:23 2024 +0800 memtest: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE in memory scanning [ Upstream commit 82634d7e24271698e50a3ec811e5f50de790a65f ] memtest failed to find bad memory when compiled with clang. So use {WRITE,READ}_ONCE to access memory to avoid compiler over optimization. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240312080422.691222-1-qiang4.zhang@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Qiang Zhang <qiang4.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bill Wendling <morbo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/mm/memtest.c b/mm/memtest.c index 32f3e9dda8370..c2c609c391199 100644 --- a/mm/memtest.c +++ b/mm/memtest.c @@ -51,10 +51,10 @@ static void __init memtest(u64 pattern, phys_addr_t start_phys, phys_addr_t size last_bad = 0; for (p = start; p < end; p++) - *p = pattern; + WRITE_ONCE(*p, pattern); for (p = start; p < end; p++, start_phys_aligned += incr) { - if (*p == pattern) + if (READ_ONCE(*p) == pattern) continue; if (start_phys_aligned == last_bad + incr) { last_bad += incr;