locking/atomic: Make test_and_*_bit() ordered on failure
authorHector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
Tue, 16 Aug 2022 07:03:11 +0000 (16:03 +0900)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 25 Aug 2022 09:39:54 +0000 (11:39 +0200)
commit1b7e0482abd03da8e09773f56db31aba9e77ef17
treed9bec84487361d38063692d2a11a088ec42ac91e
parent852f6a784a4b2cd4292f54e7d72c1cc647db50a8
locking/atomic: Make test_and_*_bit() ordered on failure

commit 415d832497098030241605c52ea83d4e2cfa7879 upstream.

These operations are documented as always ordered in
include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-atomic.h, and producer-consumer
type use cases where one side needs to ensure a flag is left pending
after some shared data was updated rely on this ordering, even in the
failure case.

This is the case with the workqueue code, which currently suffers from a
reproducible ordering violation on Apple M1 platforms (which are
notoriously out-of-order) that ends up causing the TTY layer to fail to
deliver data to userspace properly under the right conditions.  This
change fixes that bug.

Change the documentation to restrict the "no order on failure" story to
the _lock() variant (for which it makes sense), and remove the
early-exit from the generic implementation, which is what causes the
missing barrier semantics in that case.  Without this, the remaining
atomic op is fully ordered (including on ARM64 LSE, as of recent
versions of the architecture spec).

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: e986a0d6cb36 ("locking/atomics, asm-generic/bitops/atomic.h: Rewrite using atomic_*() APIs")
Fixes: 61e02392d3c7 ("locking/atomic/bitops: Document and clarify ordering semantics for failed test_and_{}_bit()")
Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/atomic_bitops.txt
include/asm-generic/bitops/atomic.h