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    locking/rwsem: Add missing ACQUIRE to read_slowpath exit when queue is empty · e1b98fa3
    Jan Stancek authored
    LTP mtest06 has been observed to occasionally hit "still mapped when
    deleted" and following BUG_ON on arm64.
    
    The extra mapcount originated from pagefault handler, which handled
    pagefault for vma that has already been detached. vma is detached
    under mmap_sem write lock by detach_vmas_to_be_unmapped(), which
    also invalidates vmacache.
    
    When the pagefault handler (under mmap_sem read lock) calls
    find_vma(), vmacache_valid() wrongly reports vmacache as valid.
    
    After rwsem down_read() returns via 'queue empty' path (as of v5.2),
    it does so without an ACQUIRE on sem->count:
    
      down_read()
        __down_read()
          rwsem_down_read_failed()
            __rwsem_down_read_failed_common()
              raw_spin_lock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
              if (list_empty(&sem->wait_list)) {
                if (atomic_long_read(&sem->count) >= 0) {
                  raw_spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
                  return sem;
    
    The problem can be reproduced by running LTP mtest06 in a loop and
    building the kernel (-j $NCPUS) in parallel. It does reproduces since
    v4.20 on arm64 HPE Apollo 70 (224 CPUs, 256GB RAM, 2 nodes). It
    triggers reliably in about an hour.
    
    The patched kernel ran fine for 10+ hours.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: dbueso@suse.de
    Fixes: 4b486b53 ("locking/rwsem: Exit read lock slowpath if queue empty & no writer")
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/50b8914e20d1d62bb2dee42d342836c2c16ebee7.1563438048.git.jstancek@redhat.comSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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