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The bpf_user_ringbuf_drain() BPF_CALL function uses an atomic_set()
immediately preceded by smp_mb__before_atomic() so as to order storing
of ring-buffer consumer and producer positions prior to the atomic_set()
call's clearing of the ->busy flag, as follows:
smp_mb__before_atomic();
atomic_set(&rb->busy, 0);
Although this works given current architectures and implementations, and
given that this only needs to order prior writes against a later write.
However, it does so by accident because the smp_mb__before_atomic()
is only guaranteed to work with read-modify-write atomic operations, and
not at all with things like atomic_set() and atomic_read().
Note especially that smp_mb__before_atomic() will not, repeat *not*,
order the prior write to "a" before the subsequent non-read-modify-write
atomic read from "b", even on strongly ordered systems such as x86:
WRITE_ONCE(a, 1);
smp_mb__before_atomic();
r1 = atomic_read(&b);
Therefore, replace the smp_mb__before_atomic() and atomic_set() with
atomic_set_release() as follows:
atomic_set_release(&rb->busy, 0);
This is no slower (and sometimes is faster) than the original, and also
provides a formal guarantee of ordering that the original lacks.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/ec86d38e-cfb4-44aa-8fdb-6c925922d93c@paulmck-laptop
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Linux kernel
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