locking/qrwlock: Fix ordering in queued_write_lock_slowpath()
While this code is executed with the wait_lock held, a reader can
acquire the lock without holding wait_lock. The writer side loops
checking the value with the atomic_cond_read_acquire(), but only truly
acquires the lock when the compare-and-exchange is completed
successfully which isn’t ordered. This exposes the window between the
acquire and the cmpxchg to an A-B-A problem which allows reads
following the lock acquisition to observe values speculatively before
the write lock is truly acquired.
We've seen a problem in epoll where the reader does a xchg while
holding the read lock, but the writer can see a value change out from
under it.
A core can order the read of the ovflist ahead of the
atomic_cmpxchg_relaxed(). Switching the cmpxchg to use acquire
semantics addresses this issue at which point the atomic_cond_read can
be switched to use relaxed semantics.
Fixes: b519b56e378ee ("locking/qrwlock: Use atomic_cond_read_acquire() when spinning in qrwlock") Signed-off-by: Ali Saidi <alisaidi@amazon.com>
[peterz: use try_cmpxchg()] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Tested-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>