The patch below does not apply to the 5.9-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 2ecedd7569080fd05c1a457e8af2165afecfa29f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 21:07:04 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] membarrier: Add an actual barrier before rseq_preempt()
It seems that most RSEQ membarrier users will expect any stores done before
the membarrier() syscall to be visible to the target task(s). While this
is extremely likely to be true in practice, nothing actually guarantees it
by a strict reading of the x86 manuals. Rather than providing this
guarantee by accident and potentially causing a problem down the road, just
add an explicit barrier.
Fixes: 70216e18e519 ("membarrier: Provide core serializing command, *_SYNC_CORE")
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d3e7197e034fa4852afcf370ca49c30496e58e40.1607058304.git.luto@xxxxxxxxxx
diff --git a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
index e23e74d52db5..7d98ef5d3bcd 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
@@ -40,6 +40,14 @@ static void ipi_mb(void *info)
static void ipi_rseq(void *info)
{
+ /*
+ * Ensure that all stores done by the calling thread are visible
+ * to the current task before the current task resumes. We could
+ * probably optimize this away on most architectures, but by the
+ * time we've already sent an IPI, the cost of the extra smp_mb()
+ * is negligible.
+ */
+ smp_mb();
rseq_preempt(current);
}
