* normally auto-disabled. When this happens, this test handler reenables
  * tag checking. As tag checking can be only disabled or enabled per CPU, this
  * handler disables migration (preemption).
+ *
+ * Since the compiler doesn't see that the expression can change the fail_data
+ * fields, it can reorder or optimize away the accesses to those fields.
+ * Use READ/WRITE_ONCE() for the accesses and compiler barriers around the
+ * expression to prevent that.
  */
 #define KUNIT_EXPECT_KASAN_FAIL(test, expression) do {         \
        if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS))                   \
                migrate_disable();                              \
-       fail_data.report_expected = true;                       \
-       fail_data.report_found = false;                         \
+       WRITE_ONCE(fail_data.report_expected, true);            \
+       WRITE_ONCE(fail_data.report_found, false);              \
        kunit_add_named_resource(test,                          \
                                NULL,                           \
                                NULL,                           \
                                &resource,                      \
                                "kasan_data", &fail_data);      \
+       barrier();                                              \
        expression;                                             \
+       barrier();                                              \
        KUNIT_EXPECT_EQ(test,                                   \
-                       fail_data.report_expected,              \
-                       fail_data.report_found);                \
+                       READ_ONCE(fail_data.report_expected),   \
+                       READ_ONCE(fail_data.report_found));     \
        if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS)) {                 \
-               if (fail_data.report_found)                     \
+               if (READ_ONCE(fail_data.report_found))          \
                        kasan_enable_tagging();                 \
                migrate_enable();                               \
        }                                                       \
 
        }
 
        kasan_data = (struct kunit_kasan_expectation *)resource->data;
-       kasan_data->report_found = true;
+       WRITE_ONCE(kasan_data->report_found, true);
        kunit_put_resource(resource);
 }
 #endif /* IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KUNIT) */