Re: [PATCH v2 17/19] kasan: remove atomic accesses to stack ring entries

[Alexander Potapenko]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 7:17 PM <andrey.konovalov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Remove the atomic accesses to entry fields in save_stack_info and
> kasan_complete_mode_report_info for tag-based KASAN modes.
>
> These atomics are not required, as the read/write lock prevents the
> entries from being read (in kasan_complete_mode_report_info) while being
> written (in save_stack_info) and the try_cmpxchg prevents the same entry
> from being rewritten (in save_stack_info) in the unlikely case of wrapping
> during writing.

Given that you removed all atomic accesses, it should be fine to
remove the inclusion of atomic.h as well.

> Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@xxxxxxxxxx>