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<title>futex: Remove duplicated code and fix undefined behaviour</title>
<updated>2018-05-26T06:48:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-24T07:31:05+00:00</published>
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commit 30d6e0a4190d37740e9447e4e4815f06992dd8c3 upstream.

There is code duplicated over all architecture's headers for
futex_atomic_op_inuser. Namely op decoding, access_ok check for uaddr,
and comparison of the result.

Remove this duplication and leave up to the arches only the needed
assembly which is now in arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser.

This effectively distributes the Will Deacon's arm64 fix for undefined
behaviour reported by UBSAN to all architectures. The fix was done in
commit 5f16a046f8e1 (arm64: futex: Fix undefined behaviour with
FUTEX_OP_OPARG_SHIFT usage). Look there for an example dump.

And as suggested by Thomas, check for negative oparg too, because it was
also reported to cause undefined behaviour report.

Note that s390 removed access_ok check in d12a29703 ("s390/uaccess:
remove pointless access_ok() checks") as access_ok there returns true.
We introduce it back to the helper for the sake of simplicity (it gets
optimized away anyway).

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; [s390]
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt; [for tile]
Reviewed-by: Darren Hart (VMware) &lt;dvhart@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt; [core/arm64]
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170824073105.3901-1-jslaby@suse.cz
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 30d6e0a4190d37740e9447e4e4815f06992dd8c3 upstream.

There is code duplicated over all architecture's headers for
futex_atomic_op_inuser. Namely op decoding, access_ok check for uaddr,
and comparison of the result.

Remove this duplication and leave up to the arches only the needed
assembly which is now in arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser.

This effectively distributes the Will Deacon's arm64 fix for undefined
behaviour reported by UBSAN to all architectures. The fix was done in
commit 5f16a046f8e1 (arm64: futex: Fix undefined behaviour with
FUTEX_OP_OPARG_SHIFT usage). Look there for an example dump.

And as suggested by Thomas, check for negative oparg too, because it was
also reported to cause undefined behaviour report.

Note that s390 removed access_ok check in d12a29703 ("s390/uaccess:
remove pointless access_ok() checks") as access_ok there returns true.
We introduce it back to the helper for the sake of simplicity (it gets
optimized away anyway).

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Acked-by: Russell King &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt; [s390]
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt; [for tile]
Reviewed-by: Darren Hart (VMware) &lt;dvhart@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt; [core/arm64]
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: Rich Felker &lt;dalias@libc.org&gt;
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Max Filippov &lt;jcmvbkbc@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonas Bonn &lt;jonas@southpole.se&gt;
Cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Yoshinori Sato &lt;ysato@users.sourceforge.jp&gt;
Cc: linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" &lt;jejb@parisc-linux.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Turner &lt;mattst88@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Fenghua Yu &lt;fenghua.yu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson &lt;stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi&gt;
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky &lt;ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru&gt;
Cc: Stafford Horne &lt;shorne@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Richard Henderson &lt;rth@twiddle.net&gt;
Cc: Chris Zankel &lt;chris@zankel.net&gt;
Cc: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Vineet Gupta &lt;vgupta@synopsys.com&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Richard Kuo &lt;rkuo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170824073105.3901-1-jslaby@suse.cz
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben.hutchings@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>tile: Define AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH for ARCH_DLINFO</title>
<updated>2016-10-07T13:23:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-07-25T15:59:54+00:00</published>
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commit cdf8b4633075f2171d440d2e37c9c2609019a81a upstream.

AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH should be defined with the maximum number of
NEW_AUX_ENT entries that ARCH_DLINFO can contain, but it wasn't defined
for tile at all even though ARCH_DLINFO will contain one NEW_AUX_ENT for
the VDSO address.

This shouldn't be a problem as AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE includes space for
AT_BASE_PLATFORM which tile doesn't use, but lets define it now and add
the comment above ARCH_DLINFO as found in several other architectures to
remind future modifiers of ARCH_DLINFO to keep AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH up to
date.

Fixes: 4a556f4f56da ("tile: implement gettimeofday() via vDSO")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit cdf8b4633075f2171d440d2e37c9c2609019a81a upstream.

AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH should be defined with the maximum number of
NEW_AUX_ENT entries that ARCH_DLINFO can contain, but it wasn't defined
for tile at all even though ARCH_DLINFO will contain one NEW_AUX_ENT for
the VDSO address.

This shouldn't be a problem as AT_VECTOR_SIZE_BASE includes space for
AT_BASE_PLATFORM which tile doesn't use, but lets define it now and add
the comment above ARCH_DLINFO as found in several other architectures to
remind future modifiers of ARCH_DLINFO to keep AT_VECTOR_SIZE_ARCH up to
date.

Fixes: 4a556f4f56da ("tile: implement gettimeofday() via vDSO")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@mellanox.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tile: provide CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE_64KB etc for tilepro</title>
<updated>2016-01-05T13:16:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@ezchip.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-22T17:28:51+00:00</published>
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This allows the build system to know that it can't attempt to
configure the Lustre virtual block device, for example, when tilepro
is using 64KB pages (as it does by default).  The tilegx build
already provided those symbols.

Previously we required that the tilepro hypervisor be rebuilt with
a different hardcoded page size in its headers, and then Linux be
rebuilt using the updated hypervisor header.  Now we allow each of
the hypervisor and Linux to be built independently.  We still check
at boot time to ensure that the page size provided by the hypervisor
matches what Linux expects.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [3.19+]
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This allows the build system to know that it can't attempt to
configure the Lustre virtual block device, for example, when tilepro
is using 64KB pages (as it does by default).  The tilegx build
already provided those symbols.

Previously we required that the tilepro hypervisor be rebuilt with
a different hardcoded page size in its headers, and then Linux be
rebuilt using the updated hypervisor header.  Now we allow each of
the hypervisor and Linux to be built independently.  We still check
at boot time to ensure that the page size provided by the hypervisor
matches what Linux expects.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org [3.19+]
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kmap_atomic_to_page() has no users, remove it</title>
<updated>2015-11-09T23:11:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Pitre</name>
<email>nicolas.pitre@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-09T22:58:23+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=77c5b5da02f0a30d61144a546c4ef3657e3b817d'/>
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Removal started in commit 5bbeed12bdc3 ("sparc32: drop unused
kmap_atomic_to_page").  Let's do it across the whole tree.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Removal started in commit 5bbeed12bdc3 ("sparc32: drop unused
kmap_atomic_to_page").  Let's do it across the whole tree.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v4.3-rc6' into locking/core, to pick up fixes before applying new changes</title>
<updated>2015-10-20T08:16:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-20T08:16:46+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>word-at-a-time.h: support zero_bytemask() on alpha and tile</title>
<updated>2015-10-06T18:53:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@ezchip.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-06T18:20:45+00:00</published>
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Both alpha and tile needed implementations of zero_bytemask.

The alpha version is untested.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
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Both alpha and tile needed implementations of zero_bytemask.

The alpha version is untested.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>word-at-a-time.h: fix some Kbuild files</title>
<updated>2015-10-06T18:52:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Metcalf</name>
<email>cmetcalf@ezchip.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-06T17:35:10+00:00</published>
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arch/tile added word-at-a-time.h after the patch that added generic-y
entries; the generic-y entry is now stale.

arch/h8300 is newer than the generic-y patch for word-at-a-time.h,
and needs a generic-y entry.

arch/powerpc seems to have gotten a generic-y entry by mistake in
the first patch; this change removes it.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
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arch/tile added word-at-a-time.h after the patch that added generic-y
entries; the generic-y entry is now stale.

arch/h8300 is newer than the generic-y patch for word-at-a-time.h,
and needs a generic-y entry.

arch/powerpc seems to have gotten a generic-y entry by mistake in
the first patch; this change removes it.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf &lt;cmetcalf@ezchip.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v4.3-rc4' into locking/core, to pick up fixes before applying new changes</title>
<updated>2015-10-06T15:10:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-06T15:10:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=82fc167c392a1700f9adbde639730ee8c8122474'/>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile</title>
<updated>2015-10-04T15:31:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-10-04T15:31:13+00:00</published>
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Pull strscpy string copy function implementation from Chris Metcalf.

Chris sent this during the merge window, but I waffled back and forth on
the pull request, which is why it's going in only now.

The new "strscpy()" function is definitely easier to use and more secure
than either strncpy() or strlcpy(), both of which are horrible nasty
interfaces that have serious and irredeemable problems.

strncpy() has a useless return value, and doesn't NUL-terminate an
overlong result.  To make matters worse, it pads a short result with
zeroes, which is a performance disaster if you have big buffers.

strlcpy(), by contrast, is a mis-designed "fix" for strlcpy(), lacking
the insane NUL padding, but having a differently broken return value
which returns the original length of the source string.  Which means
that it will read characters past the count from the source buffer, and
you have to trust the source to be properly terminated.  It also makes
error handling fragile, since the test for overflow is unnecessarily
subtle.

strscpy() avoids both these problems, guaranteeing the NUL termination
(but not excessive padding) if the destination size wasn't zero, and
making the overflow condition very obvious by returning -E2BIG.  It also
doesn't read past the size of the source, and can thus be used for
untrusted source data too.

So why did I waffle about this for so long?

Every time we introduce a new-and-improved interface, people start doing
these interminable series of trivial conversion patches.

And every time that happens, somebody does some silly mistake, and the
conversion patch to the improved interface actually makes things worse.
Because the patch is mindnumbing and trivial, nobody has the attention
span to look at it carefully, and it's usually done over large swatches
of source code which means that not every conversion gets tested.

So I'm pulling the strscpy() support because it *is* a better interface.
But I will refuse to pull mindless conversion patches.  Use this in
places where it makes sense, but don't do trivial patches to fix things
that aren't actually known to be broken.

* 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  tile: use global strscpy() rather than private copy
  string: provide strscpy()
  Make asm/word-at-a-time.h available on all architectures
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Pull strscpy string copy function implementation from Chris Metcalf.

Chris sent this during the merge window, but I waffled back and forth on
the pull request, which is why it's going in only now.

The new "strscpy()" function is definitely easier to use and more secure
than either strncpy() or strlcpy(), both of which are horrible nasty
interfaces that have serious and irredeemable problems.

strncpy() has a useless return value, and doesn't NUL-terminate an
overlong result.  To make matters worse, it pads a short result with
zeroes, which is a performance disaster if you have big buffers.

strlcpy(), by contrast, is a mis-designed "fix" for strlcpy(), lacking
the insane NUL padding, but having a differently broken return value
which returns the original length of the source string.  Which means
that it will read characters past the count from the source buffer, and
you have to trust the source to be properly terminated.  It also makes
error handling fragile, since the test for overflow is unnecessarily
subtle.

strscpy() avoids both these problems, guaranteeing the NUL termination
(but not excessive padding) if the destination size wasn't zero, and
making the overflow condition very obvious by returning -E2BIG.  It also
doesn't read past the size of the source, and can thus be used for
untrusted source data too.

So why did I waffle about this for so long?

Every time we introduce a new-and-improved interface, people start doing
these interminable series of trivial conversion patches.

And every time that happens, somebody does some silly mistake, and the
conversion patch to the improved interface actually makes things worse.
Because the patch is mindnumbing and trivial, nobody has the attention
span to look at it carefully, and it's usually done over large swatches
of source code which means that not every conversion gets tested.

So I'm pulling the strscpy() support because it *is* a better interface.
But I will refuse to pull mindless conversion patches.  Use this in
places where it makes sense, but don't do trivial patches to fix things
that aren't actually known to be broken.

* 'strscpy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  tile: use global strscpy() rather than private copy
  string: provide strscpy()
  Make asm/word-at-a-time.h available on all architectures
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<title>atomic, arch: Audit atomic_{read,set}()</title>
<updated>2015-09-23T07:54:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-18T09:13:10+00:00</published>
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This patch makes sure that atomic_{read,set}() are at least
{READ,WRITE}_ONCE().

We already had the 'requirement' that atomic_read() should use
ACCESS_ONCE(), and most archs had this, but a few were lacking.
All are now converted to use READ_ONCE().

And, by a symmetry and general paranoia argument, upgrade atomic_set()
to use WRITE_ONCE().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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This patch makes sure that atomic_{read,set}() are at least
{READ,WRITE}_ONCE().

We already had the 'requirement' that atomic_read() should use
ACCESS_ONCE(), and most archs had this, but a few were lacking.
All are now converted to use READ_ONCE().

And, by a symmetry and general paranoia argument, upgrade atomic_set()
to use WRITE_ONCE().

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: james.hogan@imgtec.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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