[PATCH v4 00/10] thread_info: use helpers to snapshot thread flags

[Mark Rutland]

As thread_info::flags scan be manipulated by remote threads, it is
necessary to use atomics or READ_ONCE() to ensure that code manipulates
a consistent snapshot, but we open-code plain accesses to
thread_info::flags across the kernel tree.

Generally we get away with this, but tools like KCSAN legitimately warn
that there is a data-race, and this is potentially fragile with compiler
optimizations, LTO, etc.

These patches introduce new helpers to snahpshot the thread flags, with
the intent being that these should replace all plain accesses.

Since v1 [1]:
* Drop RFC
* Make read_ti_thread_flags() __always_inline
* Clarify commit messages
* Fix typo in arm64 patch
* Accumulate Reviewed-by / Acked-by tags
* Drop powerpc patch to avoid potential conflicts (per [2])

Since v2 [3]:
* Rebase to v5.14-rc1
* Reinstate powerpc patch

Since v3 [4]:
* Rebase to v5.14-rc4

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210609122001.18277-1-mark.rutland@xxxxxxx
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/87k0mvtgeb.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210621090602.16883-1-mark.rutland@xxxxxxx
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210713113842.2106-1-mark.rutland@xxxxxxx

Thanks,
Mark.

Mark Rutland (10):
  thread_info: add helpers to snapshot thread flags
  entry: snapshot thread flags
  sched: snapshot thread flags
  alpha: snapshot thread flags
  arm: snapshot thread flags
  arm64: snapshot thread flags
  microblaze: snapshot thread flags
  openrisc: snapshot thread flags
  powerpc: snapshot thread flags
  x86: snapshot thread flags

 arch/alpha/kernel/signal.c          |  2 +-
 arch/arm/kernel/signal.c            |  2 +-
 arch/arm/mm/alignment.c             |  2 +-
 arch/arm64/kernel/ptrace.c          |  4 ++--
 arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c          |  2 +-
 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c         |  4 ++--
 arch/microblaze/kernel/signal.c     |  2 +-
 arch/openrisc/kernel/signal.c       |  2 +-
 arch/powerpc/kernel/interrupt.c     | 13 ++++++-------
 arch/powerpc/kernel/ptrace/ptrace.c |  3 +--
 arch/x86/kernel/process.c           |  8 ++++----
 arch/x86/kernel/process.h           |  6 +++---
 arch/x86/mm/tlb.c                   |  2 +-
 include/linux/entry-kvm.h           |  2 +-
 include/linux/thread_info.h         | 14 ++++++++++++++
 kernel/entry/common.c               |  4 ++--
 kernel/entry/kvm.c                  |  4 ++--
 kernel/sched/core.c                 |  2 +-
 18 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

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