From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Dmitry Vyukov" <dvyukov@google.com>,
"Ian Kent" <raven@themaw.net>, "Mickaël Salaün" <mic@digikod.net>,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>,
"Kostya Serebryany" <kcc@google.com>,
"Alexander Potapenko" <glider@google.com>,
"Sasha Levin" <sasha.levin@oracle.com>,
"David Howells" <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: fs: NULL deref in atime_needs_update
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:50:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160229165031.GY17997@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFz3qdv+sEA_mk0mVQ8ZofkyberEzmh-ofVGXM4dciGEYA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 08:45:37AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > David, Linus, do you see any problems with that? To me it looks saner
> > that way and as cheap as the current code, but I might be missing something
> > here...
>
> I'd absolutely love to see this. The memory ordering for the flags
> updates and reading was always really confusing, and I hated how it
> was hidden inside the random access functions. And apparently it
> wasn't just confusing, it was buggy too.
>
> But I'd love it _more_ if this also means that we can get rid of the
> rmb's, which your patch didn't. Can we? Or does the ordering still
> remain for some other issue?
In __d_entry_type(), you mean? Should be, along with READ_ONCE() there.
AFAICS, ordering shouldn't be an issue anymore...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-29 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-05 21:11 fs: NULL deref in atime_needs_update Dmitry Vyukov
2016-02-16 23:40 ` Mickaël Salaün
2016-02-19 19:32 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-02-20 3:21 ` Al Viro
2016-02-20 3:54 ` Al Viro
2016-02-20 13:25 ` Mickaël Salaün
2016-02-20 17:10 ` Al Viro
2016-02-20 20:26 ` Mickaël Salaün
2016-02-20 20:50 ` Al Viro
2016-02-22 11:20 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-02-22 17:23 ` Al Viro
2016-02-23 15:34 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-02-23 18:17 ` Al Viro
2016-02-20 10:36 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-02-24 3:12 ` Ian Kent
2016-02-24 4:46 ` Al Viro
2016-02-24 10:03 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-02-24 10:15 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-02-24 13:35 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-02-24 15:15 ` Al Viro
2016-02-25 8:29 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-02-25 16:39 ` Al Viro
2016-02-26 21:21 ` Al Viro
2016-02-26 21:25 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-02-26 22:07 ` Al Viro
2016-02-27 22:27 ` Al Viro
2016-02-28 15:43 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-02-28 16:04 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-02-28 17:01 ` Al Viro
2016-02-28 20:01 ` Al Viro
2016-02-29 9:38 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-02-29 12:34 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-02-29 16:11 ` Al Viro
2016-02-29 13:09 ` Al Viro
2016-02-29 15:54 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-02-29 16:19 ` Al Viro
2016-02-29 18:19 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-03-01 8:59 ` Dmitry Vyukov
2016-02-29 16:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-29 16:50 ` Al Viro [this message]
2016-02-29 17:20 ` Al Viro
2016-02-29 17:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-02-29 13:43 ` David Howells
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