+ liveupdate-synchronize-lazy-initialization-of-flb-private-state.patch added to mm-new branch

+ liveupdate-synchronize-lazy-initialization-of-flb-private-state.patch added to mm-new branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: liveupdate: synchronize lazy initialization of FLB private state
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     liveupdate-synchronize-lazy-initialization-of-flb-private-state.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/liveupdate-synchronize-lazy-initialization-of-flb-private-state.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-new branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Subject: liveupdate: synchronize lazy initialization of FLB private state
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:33:26 +0000

The luo_flb_get_private() function, which is responsible for lazily
initializing the private state of FLB objects, can be called concurrently
from multiple threads.  This creates a data race on the 'initialized' flag
and can lead to multiple executions of mutex_init() and INIT_LIST_HEAD()
on the same memory.

Introduce a static spinlock (luo_flb_init_lock) local to the function to
synchronize the initialization path.  Use smp_load_acquire() and
smp_store_release() for memory ordering between the fast path and the slow
path.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260327033335.696621-3-pasha.tatashin@soleen.com
Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: David Matlack <dmatlack@google.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org>
Cc: Samiullah Khawaja <skhawaja@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 kernel/liveupdate/luo_flb.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_flb.c~liveupdate-synchronize-lazy-initialization-of-flb-private-state
+++ a/kernel/liveupdate/luo_flb.c
@@ -89,13 +89,18 @@ struct luo_flb_link {
 static struct luo_flb_private *luo_flb_get_private(struct liveupdate_flb *flb)
 {
 	struct luo_flb_private *private = &ACCESS_PRIVATE(flb, private);
+	static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(luo_flb_init_lock);
 
+	if (smp_load_acquire(&private->initialized))
+		return private;
+
+	guard(spinlock)(&luo_flb_init_lock);
 	if (!private->initialized) {
 		mutex_init(&private->incoming.lock);
 		mutex_init(&private->outgoing.lock);
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&private->list);
 		private->users = 0;
-		private->initialized = true;
+		smp_store_release(&private->initialized, true);
 	}
 
 	return private;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from pasha.tatashin@soleen.com are

liveupdate-prevent-double-management-of-files.patch
memfd-implement-get_id-for-memfd_luo.patch
selftests-liveupdate-add-test-for-double-preservation.patch
liveupdate-safely-print-untrusted-strings.patch
liveupdate-synchronize-lazy-initialization-of-flb-private-state.patch
liveupdate-protect-file-handler-list-with-rwsem.patch
liveupdate-protect-flb-lists-with-luo_register_rwlock.patch
liveupdate-defer-flb-module-refcounting-to-active-sessions.patch
liveupdate-remove-luo_session_quiesce.patch
liveupdate-auto-unregister-flbs-on-file-handler-unregistration.patch
liveupdate-remove-liveupdate_test_unregister.patch
liveupdate-make-unregister-functions-return-void.patch
liveupdate-defer-file-handler-module-refcounting-to-active-sessions.patch