[PATCH 1/1] sparc32: do not write back unchanged values in emulated atomics

From: Magnus Lindholm

Date: Mon Oct 26 2026 - 04:39:13 EST


A failed bit-lock acquisition can restore an unlinked hlist_bl head and
leave pathname lookup retrying a dead dentry indefinitely. The owner
updates the pointer bits with a plain store while holding the bit lock.
SPARC32's hashed atomic lock does not exclude that store: an unconditional
fetch-or can write back a stale pointer even when the lock bit was set.

Skip unchanged stores in the emulated atomic fetch operations and legacy
set/clear bit helpers. This covers current test_and_set_bit()-based locks
and older generic bit-lock implementations. Keep the hash lock and IRQ
exclusion on every path, preserving ordering, return values and
changed-value updates.

This fixes the bit-lock owner/waiter protocol, not arbitrary races between
plain stores and changed-value emulated atomic operations.

Fixes: 26333576fd0d ("bitops: introduce lock ops")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Validation: forced-interleaving host regression; SMP/UP builds and QEMU
smoke boots. A native GDB 18.1 build also passed on dual-CPU HyperSPARC
as part of the combined integration; see the cover letter for scope.

arch/sparc/lib/atomic32.c | 20 +++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/sparc/lib/atomic32.c b/arch/sparc/lib/atomic32.c
index 8ae880ebf07a..30b4e0c12c07 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/lib/atomic32.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/lib/atomic32.c
@@ -28,15 +28,19 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dummy);

#endif /* SMP */

+/* Failed bit-lock acquisition must not overwrite an owner's plain store. */
#define ATOMIC_FETCH_OP(op, c_op) \
int arch_atomic_fetch_##op(int i, atomic_t *v) \
{ \
- int ret; \
+ int ret, new; \
unsigned long flags; \
spin_lock_irqsave(ATOMIC_HASH(v), flags); \
\
- ret = v->counter; \
- v->counter c_op i; \
+ ret = READ_ONCE(v->counter); \
+ new = ret; \
+ new c_op i; \
+ if (new != ret) \
+ WRITE_ONCE(v->counter, new); \
\
spin_unlock_irqrestore(ATOMIC_HASH(v), flags); \
return ret; \
@@ -125,8 +129,9 @@ unsigned long sp32___set_bit(unsigned long *addr, unsigned long mask)
unsigned long old, flags;

spin_lock_irqsave(ATOMIC_HASH(addr), flags);
- old = *addr;
- *addr = old | mask;
+ old = READ_ONCE(*addr);
+ if (!(old & mask))
+ WRITE_ONCE(*addr, old | mask);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(ATOMIC_HASH(addr), flags);

return old & mask;
@@ -138,8 +143,9 @@ unsigned long sp32___clear_bit(unsigned long *addr, unsigned long mask)
unsigned long old, flags;

spin_lock_irqsave(ATOMIC_HASH(addr), flags);
- old = *addr;
- *addr = old & ~mask;
+ old = READ_ONCE(*addr);
+ if (old & mask)
+ WRITE_ONCE(*addr, old & ~mask);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(ATOMIC_HASH(addr), flags);

return old & mask;
--
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