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author | Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> | 2013-05-29 09:06:27 +0000 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-06-02 20:53:59 -0700 |
commit | c87a124a5d5e8cf8e21c4363c3372bcaf53ea190 (patch) | |
tree | 291681da6b67bc52bf92703f895070eb8b772a8c /block/genhd.c | |
parent | c802db1164f28e62c6a43132b8d290cb8113f2ac (diff) |
net: force a reload of first item in hlist_nulls_for_each_entry_rcu
Roman Gushchin discovered that udp4_lib_lookup2() was not reloading
first item in the rcu protected list, in case the loop was restarted.
This produced soft lockups as in https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/16/37
rcu_dereference(X)/ACCESS_ONCE(X) seem to not work as intended if X is
ptr->field :
In some cases, gcc caches the value or ptr->field in a register.
Use a barrier() to disallow such caching, as documented in
Documentation/atomic_ops.txt line 114
Thanks a lot to Roman for providing analysis and numerous patches.
Diagnosed-by: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Boris Zhmurov <zhmurov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <klamm@yandex-team.ru>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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