Re: [PATCH 2/5] ipc/mqueue.c: Update/document memory barriers

[Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>]

On Fri, 11 Oct 2019, Manfred Spraul wrote:

>Update and document memory barriers for mqueue.c:
>- ewp->state is read without any locks, thus READ_ONCE is required.

In general we relied on the barrier for not needing READ/WRITE_ONCE,
but I agree this scenario should be better documented with them.
Similarly imo, the 'state' should also need them for write, even if
under the lock -- consistency and documentation, for example.

In addition, I think it makes sense to encapsulate some of the
pipelined send/recv operations, that also can allow us to keep
the barrier comments in pipelined_send(), which I wonder why
you chose to remove. Something like so, before your changes:

diff --git a/ipc/mqueue.c b/ipc/mqueue.c
index 3d920ff15c80..be48c0ba92f7 100644
--- a/ipc/mqueue.c
+++ b/ipc/mqueue.c
@@ -918,17 +918,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(mq_unlink, const char __user *, u_name)
  * The same algorithm is used for senders.
  */
 
-/* pipelined_send() - send a message directly to the task waiting in
- * sys_mq_timedreceive() (without inserting message into a queue).
- */
-static inline void pipelined_send(struct wake_q_head *wake_q,
+static inline void __pipelined_op(struct wake_q_head *wake_q,
 				  struct mqueue_inode_info *info,
-				  struct msg_msg *message,
-				  struct ext_wait_queue *receiver)
+				  struct ext_wait_queue *this)
 {
-	receiver->msg = message;
-	list_del(&receiver->list);
-	wake_q_add(wake_q, receiver->task);
+	list_del(&this->list);
+	wake_q_add(wake_q, this->task);
 	/*
 	 * Rely on the implicit cmpxchg barrier from wake_q_add such
 	 * that we can ensure that updating receiver->state is the last
@@ -937,7 +932,19 @@ static inline void pipelined_send(struct wake_q_head *wake_q,
 	 * yet, at that point we can later have a use-after-free
 	 * condition and bogus wakeup.
 	 */
-	receiver->state = STATE_READY;
+        this->state = STATE_READY;
+}
+
+/* pipelined_send() - send a message directly to the task waiting in
+ * sys_mq_timedreceive() (without inserting message into a queue).
+ */
+static inline void pipelined_send(struct wake_q_head *wake_q,
+				  struct mqueue_inode_info *info,
+				  struct msg_msg *message,
+				  struct ext_wait_queue *receiver)
+{
+	receiver->msg = message;
+	__pipelined_op(wake_q, info, receiver);
 }
 
 /* pipelined_receive() - if there is task waiting in sys_mq_timedsend()
@@ -955,9 +962,7 @@ static inline void pipelined_receive(struct wake_q_head *wake_q,
 	if (msg_insert(sender->msg, info))
 		return;
 
-	list_del(&sender->list);
-	wake_q_add(wake_q, sender->task);
-	sender->state = STATE_READY;
+	__pipelined_op(wake_q, info, sender);
 }
 
 static int do_mq_timedsend(mqd_t mqdes, const char __user *u_msg_ptr,