[PATCH 02/17] futex: Use smp_store_release() in mark_wake_futex()

[Henrik Austad]

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 1b367ece0d7e696cab1c8501bab282cc6a538b3f upstream.

Since the futex_q can dissapear the instruction after assigning NULL,
this really should be a RELEASE barrier. That stops loads from hitting
dead memory too.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: juri.lelli@xxxxxxx
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Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170322104151.604296452@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Henrik Austad <haustad@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/futex.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index bb87324..9e92f12 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1284,8 +1284,7 @@ static void mark_wake_futex(struct wake_q_head *wake_q, struct futex_q *q)
 	 * memory barrier is required here to prevent the following
 	 * store to lock_ptr from getting ahead of the plist_del.
 	 */
-	smp_wmb();
-	q->lock_ptr = NULL;
+	smp_store_release(&q->lock_ptr, NULL);
 }
 
 static int wake_futex_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 uval, struct futex_q *top_waiter,
-- 
2.7.4