ipc/sem.c: update/correct memory barriers

sem_lock() did not properly pair memory barriers:

!spin_is_locked() and spin_unlock_wait() are both only control barriers.
The code needs an acquire barrier, otherwise the cpu might perform read
operations before the lock test.

As no primitive exists inside <include/spinlock.h> and since it seems
noone wants another primitive, the code creates a local primitive within
ipc/sem.c.

With regards to -stable:

The change of sem_wait_array() is a bugfix, the change to sem_lock() is a
nop (just a preprocessor redefinition to improve the readability).  The
bugfix is necessary for all kernels that use sem_wait_array() (i.e.:
starting from 3.10).

Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[3.10+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/ipc/sem.c b/ipc/sem.c
index 178f303deea51ecb8a93b4a9352793bb6ae4aafc..b471e5a3863ddbca70f2bf4dee22f40df0345fbe 100644 (file)
--- a/ipc/sem.c
+++ b/ipc/sem.c
@@ -252,6 +252,16 @@ static void sem_rcu_free(struct rcu_head *head)
        ipc_rcu_free(head);
 }
 
+/*
+ * spin_unlock_wait() and !spin_is_locked() are not memory barriers, they
+ * are only control barriers.
+ * The code must pair with spin_unlock(&sem->lock) or
+ * spin_unlock(&sem_perm.lock), thus just the control barrier is insufficient.
+ *
+ * smp_rmb() is sufficient, as writes cannot pass the control barrier.
+ */
+#define ipc_smp_acquire__after_spin_is_unlocked()      smp_rmb()
+
 /*
  * Wait until all currently ongoing simple ops have completed.
  * Caller must own sem_perm.lock.
@@ -275,6 +285,7 @@ static void sem_wait_array(struct sem_array *sma)
                sem = sma->sem_base + i;
                spin_unlock_wait(&sem->lock);
        }
+       ipc_smp_acquire__after_spin_is_unlocked();
 }
 
 /*
@@ -327,13 +338,12 @@ static inline int sem_lock(struct sem_array *sma, struct sembuf *sops,
                /* Then check that the global lock is free */
                if (!spin_is_locked(&sma->sem_perm.lock)) {
                        /*
-                        * The ipc object lock check must be visible on all
-                        * cores before rechecking the complex count.  Otherwise
-                        * we can race with  another thread that does:
+                        * We need a memory barrier with acquire semantics,
+                        * otherwise we can race with another thread that does:
                         *      complex_count++;
                         *      spin_unlock(sem_perm.lock);
                         */
-                       smp_rmb();
+                       ipc_smp_acquire__after_spin_is_unlocked();
 
                        /*
                         * Now repeat the test of complex_count: