fs: fix data races on inode->i_flctx
locks_get_lock_context() uses cmpxchg() to install i_flctx. cmpxchg() is a release operation which is correct. But it uses a plain load to load i_flctx. This is incorrect. Subsequent loads from i_flctx can hoist above the load of i_flctx pointer itself and observe uninitialized garbage there. This in turn can lead to corruption of ctx->flc_lock and other members. Documentation/memory-barriers.txt explicitly requires to use a barrier in such context: "A load-load control dependency requires a full read memory barrier". Use smp_load_acquire() in locks_get_lock_context() and in bunch of other functions that can proceed concurrently with locks_get_lock_context(). The data race was found with KernelThreadSanitizer (KTSAN). Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>
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