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locking/rtmutex: Use READ_ONCE() in rt_mutex_owner()
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While debugging the rtmutex unlock vs. dequeue race Will suggested to use
READ_ONCE() in rt_mutex_owner() as it might race against the
cmpxchg_release() in unlock_rt_mutex_safe().

Will: "It's a minor thing which will most likely not matter in practice"

Careful search did not unearth an actual problem in todays code, but it's
better to be safe than surprised.

Suggested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161130210030.431379999@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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KAGA-KOKO authored and Ingo Molnar committed Dec 2, 2016
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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions kernel/locking/rtmutex_common.h
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Expand Up @@ -75,8 +75,9 @@ task_top_pi_waiter(struct task_struct *p)

static inline struct task_struct *rt_mutex_owner(struct rt_mutex *lock)
{
return (struct task_struct *)
((unsigned long)lock->owner & ~RT_MUTEX_OWNER_MASKALL);
unsigned long owner = (unsigned long) READ_ONCE(lock->owner);

return (struct task_struct *) (owner & ~RT_MUTEX_OWNER_MASKALL);
}

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