[GIT PULL] locking fixes

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Aug 18 2016 - 22:02:31 EST


Linus,

Please pull the latest locking-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git locking-urgent-for-linus

# HEAD: 112dc0c8069e5554e0ad29c58228f1e6ca49e13d locking/barriers: Suppress sparse warnings in lockless_dereference()

Two lockless_dereference() related fixes.

Thanks,

Ingo

------------------>
Johannes Berg (2):
Revert "drm/fb-helper: Reduce READ_ONCE(master) to lockless_dereference"
locking/barriers: Suppress sparse warnings in lockless_dereference()


drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 2 +-
include/linux/compiler.h | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
index ce54e985d91b..0a06f9120b5a 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ static bool drm_fb_helper_is_bound(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper)

/* Sometimes user space wants everything disabled, so don't steal the
* display if there's a master. */
- if (lockless_dereference(dev->master))
+ if (READ_ONCE(dev->master))
return false;

drm_for_each_crtc(crtc, dev) {
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 1bb954842725..436aa4e42221 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -527,13 +527,13 @@ static __always_inline void __write_once_size(volatile void *p, void *res, int s
* object's lifetime is managed by something other than RCU. That
* "something other" might be reference counting or simple immortality.
*
- * The seemingly unused void * variable is to validate @p is indeed a pointer
- * type. All pointer types silently cast to void *.
+ * The seemingly unused size_t variable is to validate @p is indeed a pointer
+ * type by making sure it can be dereferenced.
*/
#define lockless_dereference(p) \
({ \
typeof(p) _________p1 = READ_ONCE(p); \
- __maybe_unused const void * const _________p2 = _________p1; \
+ size_t __maybe_unused __size_of_ptr = sizeof(*(p)); \
smp_read_barrier_depends(); /* Dependency order vs. p above. */ \
(_________p1); \
})