Re: [PATCH 2/4] fscache: Fix race in fscache_op_complete() due to split atomic_sub & read

[Andrea Parri]

Hi David,

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 03:23:38PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> From: kiran.modukuri <kiran.modukuri@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The code in fscache_retrieval_complete is using atomic_sub followed by an
> atomic_read:
> 
>         atomic_sub(n_pages, &op->n_pages);
>         if (atomic_read(&op->n_pages) <= 0)
>                 fscache_op_complete(&op->op, true);
> 
> This causes two threads doing a decrement of n_pages to race with each
> other seeing the op->refcount 0 at same time - and they end up calling
> fscache_op_complete() in both the threads leading to an assertion failure.
> 
> Fix this by using atomic_sub_return() instead of two calls.

Seems a case for atomic_sub_return_relaxed()... why not?

  Andrea