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locking/barriers: Add implicit smp_read_barrier_depends() to READ_ONCE()
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Tue, 24 Oct 2017 10:22:47 +0000 (11:22 +0100)
committerKleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
Sat, 6 Jan 2018 12:23:06 +0000 (13:23 +0100)
commit6ef3d843f8f1a8b72ca83d4b1d457c2896278ccd
tree912b997a55e56f0bd67981069070514b18dc037a
parent1883b099261ebece3016b50fa403ffde90027a04
locking/barriers: Add implicit smp_read_barrier_depends() to READ_ONCE()

CVE-2017-5754

[ Note, this is a Git cherry-pick of the following commit:

    76ebbe78f739 ("locking/barriers: Add implicit smp_read_barrier_depends() to READ_ONCE()")

  ... for easier x86 PTI code testing and back-porting. ]

In preparation for the removal of lockless_dereference(), which is the
same as READ_ONCE() on all architectures other than Alpha, add an
implicit smp_read_barrier_depends() to READ_ONCE() so that it can be
used to head dependency chains on all architectures.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508840570-22169-3-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit c2bc66082e1048c7573d72e62f597bdc5ce13fea)
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
include/linux/compiler.h