From: David Sterba Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 12:53:56 +0000 (+0200) Subject: btrfs: add barriers to btrfs_sync_log before log_commit_wait wakeups X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=31371d2dad493ce0bc7892cb6c1c3f5f397e12b9;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git btrfs: add barriers to btrfs_sync_log before log_commit_wait wakeups [ Upstream commit 3d3a2e610ea5e7c6d4f9481ecce5d8e2d8317843 ] Currently the code assumes that there's an implied barrier by the sequence of code preceding the wakeup, namely the mutex unlock. As Nikolay pointed out: I think this is wrong (not your code) but the original assumption that the RELEASE semantics provided by mutex_unlock is sufficient. According to memory-barriers.txt: Section 'LOCK ACQUISITION FUNCTIONS' states: (2) RELEASE operation implication: Memory operations issued before the RELEASE will be completed before the RELEASE operation has completed. Memory operations issued after the RELEASE *may* be completed before the RELEASE operation has completed. (I've bolded the may portion) The example given there: As an example, consider the following: *A = a; *B = b; ACQUIRE *C = c; *D = d; RELEASE *E = e; *F = f; The following sequence of events is acceptable: ACQUIRE, {*F,*A}, *E, {*C,*D}, *B, RELEASE So if we assume that *C is modifying the flag which the waitqueue is checking, and *E is the actual wakeup, then those accesses can be re-ordered... IMHO this code should be considered broken... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c index bf4e22df7c97..e1b4a59485df 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c @@ -3041,8 +3041,11 @@ out_wake_log_root: mutex_unlock(&log_root_tree->log_mutex); /* - * The barrier before waitqueue_active is implied by mutex_unlock + * The barrier before waitqueue_active is needed so all the updates + * above are seen by the woken threads. It might not be necessary, but + * proving that seems to be hard. */ + smp_mb(); if (waitqueue_active(&log_root_tree->log_commit_wait[index2])) wake_up(&log_root_tree->log_commit_wait[index2]); out: @@ -3053,8 +3056,11 @@ out: mutex_unlock(&root->log_mutex); /* - * The barrier before waitqueue_active is implied by mutex_unlock + * The barrier before waitqueue_active is needed so all the updates + * above are seen by the woken threads. It might not be necessary, but + * proving that seems to be hard. */ + smp_mb(); if (waitqueue_active(&root->log_commit_wait[index1])) wake_up(&root->log_commit_wait[index1]); return ret;