Patch "rcu: Add memory barriers for NOCB leader wakeup" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    rcu: Add memory barriers for NOCB leader wakeup

to the 4.12-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     rcu-add-memory-barriers-for-nocb-leader-wakeup.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 6b5fc3a1331810db407c9e0e673dc1837afdc9d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 20:11:09 -0700
Subject: rcu: Add memory barriers for NOCB leader wakeup

From: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

commit 6b5fc3a1331810db407c9e0e673dc1837afdc9d0 upstream.

Wait/wakeup operations do not guarantee ordering on their own.  Instead,
either locking or memory barriers are required.  This commit therefore
adds memory barriers to wake_nocb_leader() and nocb_leader_wait().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Krister Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -1769,6 +1769,7 @@ static void wake_nocb_leader(struct rcu_
 	if (READ_ONCE(rdp_leader->nocb_leader_sleep) || force) {
 		/* Prior smp_mb__after_atomic() orders against prior enqueue. */
 		WRITE_ONCE(rdp_leader->nocb_leader_sleep, false);
+		smp_mb(); /* ->nocb_leader_sleep before swake_up(). */
 		swake_up(&rdp_leader->nocb_wq);
 	}
 }
@@ -2023,6 +2024,7 @@ wait_again:
 	 * nocb_gp_head, where they await a grace period.
 	 */
 	gotcbs = false;
+	smp_mb(); /* wakeup before ->nocb_head reads. */
 	for (rdp = my_rdp; rdp; rdp = rdp->nocb_next_follower) {
 		rdp->nocb_gp_head = READ_ONCE(rdp->nocb_head);
 		if (!rdp->nocb_gp_head)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com are

queue-4.12/rcu-add-memory-barriers-for-nocb-leader-wakeup.patch