Re: [PATCH] VMCI: Fixup atomic64_t abuse

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-06-06T16:03:21Z

On Thu, Jun 06, 2019 at 03:54:24PM +0000, Jorgen Hansen wrote:
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> > On 6 Jun 2019, at 11:34, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > The VMCI driver is abusing atomic64_t and atomic_t, there is no actual
> > atomic RmW operations around.
> >
> > Rewrite the code to use a regular u64 with READ_ONCE() and
> > WRITE_ONCE() and a cast to 'unsigned long'. This fully preserves
> > whatever broken there was (it's not endian-safe for starters, and also
> > looks to be missing ordering).
>
> Thanks for the cleanup.
>
> This code is only intended for use with the vmci device driver, and
> that is X86 only, so during the original upstreaming no effort was
> made to make this work correctly on anything else.
>
> With that in mind, it should be fine to drop the unsigned long * type
> casts, since the introduction of the 32 bit operations were only done
> to avoid an issue with cmpxchg8b on 32-bit, and just doing straight
> writes avoids that too.
>
> We’ll be updating the vmci device driver to work on other
> architectures soonish, so will be adding barriers to enforce ordering
> as well at that point. If you want to leave your patch as is, we can
> address the type casting then.

I've already applied it.

greg k-h