Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] xarray: fix the data-race in xas_find_chunk() by using READ_ONCE()

From: Jan Kara
Date: Mon Sep 18 2023 - 11:41:12 EST


On Mon 18-09-23 15:34:46, Mirsad Todorovac wrote:
> On 9/18/23 15:18, Jan Kara wrote:
> > On Mon 18-09-23 14:46:02, Mirsad Todorovac wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I tried this patch and the
> > >
> > > > > 95 _find_first_and_bit (lib/find_bit.c:114 (discriminator 10))
> > > > > 31 _find_first_zero_bit (lib/find_bit.c:125 (discriminator 10))
> > > > > 173 _find_next_and_bit (lib/find_bit.c:171 (discriminator 2))
> > > > > 655 _find_next_bit (lib/find_bit.c:133 (discriminator 2))
> > > > > 5 _find_next_zero_bit
> > >
> > > data-races do not seem to appear any longer.
> >
> > Yup. You've just missed one case in _find_last_bit() and then all the
> > functions in include/linux/find.h need a similar treatment...
>
> I seem to have this:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> #ifndef find_last_bit
> unsigned long _find_last_bit(const unsigned long *addr, unsigned long size)
> {
> if (size) {
> unsigned long val = BITMAP_LAST_WORD_MASK(size);
> unsigned long idx = (size-1) / BITS_PER_LONG;
>
> do {
> val &= READ_ONCE(addr[idx]);
> if (val)
> return idx * BITS_PER_LONG + __fls(val);
>
> val = ~0ul;
> } while (idx--);
> }
> return size;
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(_find_last_bit);
> #endif
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Is there something I did not notice?

No, this looks correct. I just somehow didn't see this hunk in the diff
you've posted.

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
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