Re: [PATCH] rust: sync: fix incorrect Sync bounds for LockedBy

[Simona Vetter]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 02:20:06PM +0000, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> The `impl Sync for LockedBy` implementation has insufficient trait
> bounds, as it only requires `T: Send`. However, `T: Sync` is also
> required for soundness because the `LockedBy::access` method could be
> used to provide shared access to the inner value from several threads in
> parallel.
> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 7b1f55e3a984 ("rust: sync: introduce `LockedBy`")
> Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@xxxxxxxxxx>

So I was pondering this forever, because we don't yet have read locks and
for exclusive locks Send is enough. But since Arc<T> allows us to build
really funny read locks already we need to require Sync for LockedBy,
unlike Lock.

We could split access and access_mut up with a newtype so that Sync is
only required when needed, but that's not too hard to sneak in when we
actually need it.

Reviewed-by: Simona Vetter <simona.vetter@xxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs | 9 +++++----
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs b/rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs
> index babc731bd5f6..153ba4edcb03 100644
> --- a/rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs
> +++ b/rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs
> @@ -83,9 +83,10 @@ pub struct LockedBy<T: ?Sized, U: ?Sized> {
>  // SAFETY: `LockedBy` can be transferred across thread boundaries iff the data it protects can.
>  unsafe impl<T: ?Sized + Send, U: ?Sized> Send for LockedBy<T, U> {}
>  
> -// SAFETY: `LockedBy` serialises the interior mutability it provides, so it is `Sync` as long as the
> -// data it protects is `Send`.
> -unsafe impl<T: ?Sized + Send, U: ?Sized> Sync for LockedBy<T, U> {}
> +// SAFETY: Shared access to the `LockedBy` can provide both `&mut T` references in a synchronized
> +// manner, or `&T` access in an unsynchronized manner. The `Send` trait is sufficient for the first
> +// case, and `Sync` is sufficient for the second case.
> +unsafe impl<T: ?Sized + Send + Sync, U: ?Sized> Sync for LockedBy<T, U> {}
>  
>  impl<T, U> LockedBy<T, U> {
>      /// Constructs a new instance of [`LockedBy`].
> @@ -127,7 +128,7 @@ pub fn access<'a>(&'a self, owner: &'a U) -> &'a T {
>              panic!("mismatched owners");
>          }
>  
> -        // SAFETY: `owner` is evidence that the owner is locked.
> +        // SAFETY: `owner` is evidence that there are only shared references to the owner.
>          unsafe { &*self.data.get() }
>      }
>  
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 93dc3be19450447a3a7090bd1dfb9f3daac3e8d2
> change-id: 20240912-locked-by-sync-fix-07193df52f98
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 

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Simona Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch