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From: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
To: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] printk: ringbuffer: avoid memcpy() on state_var
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 11:54:03 +0206	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200914094803.27365-2-john.ogness@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200914094803.27365-1-john.ogness@linutronix.de>

@state_var is copied as part of the descriptor copying via
memcpy(). This is not allowed because @state_var is an atomic type,
which in some implementations may contain a spinlock.

Avoid using memcpy() with @state_var by explicitly copying the other
fields of the descriptor. @state_var is set using atomic set
operator before returning.

Fixes: b6cf8b3f3312 ("printk: add lockless ringbuffer")
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
---
 kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c b/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c
index 88f7dd4cb0c1..11b860ad5264 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk_ringbuffer.c
@@ -412,9 +412,14 @@ static enum desc_state desc_read(struct prb_desc_ring *desc_ring,
 
 	/*
 	 * Copy the descriptor data. The data is not valid until the
-	 * state has been re-checked.
+	 * state has been re-checked. A memcpy() for all of @desc
+	 * cannot be used because of the atomic_t @state_var field.
 	 */
-	memcpy(desc_out, desc, sizeof(*desc_out)); /* LMM(desc_read:C) */
+	memcpy(&desc_out->info, &desc->info, sizeof(desc_out->info)); /* LMM(desc_read:C) */
+	memcpy(&desc_out->text_blk_lpos, &desc->text_blk_lpos,
+	       sizeof(desc_out->text_blk_lpos)); /* also part of desc_read:C */
+	memcpy(&desc_out->dict_blk_lpos, &desc->dict_blk_lpos,
+	       sizeof(desc_out->dict_blk_lpos)); /* also part of desc_read:C */
 
 	/*
 	 * 1. Guarantee the descriptor content is loaded before re-checking
-- 
2.19.0


  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-14  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-14  9:48 [PATCH 1/2] printk: ringbuffer: fix setting state in desc_read() John Ogness
2020-09-14  9:48 ` John Ogness [this message]
2020-09-14 12:44   ` [PATCH 2/2] printk: ringbuffer: avoid memcpy() on state_var Petr Mladek
2020-09-14 12:29 ` [PATCH 1/2] printk: ringbuffer: fix setting state in desc_read() Petr Mladek
2020-09-15 15:24 ` Petr Mladek

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