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From: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, hpa@zytor.com, ak@linux.intel.com,
	a.ryabinin@samsung.com, x86@kernel.org, borntraeger@de.ibm.com,
	mingo@redhat.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
	paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, riel@redhat.com,
	konrad.wilk@oracle.com, sasha.levin@oracle.com, davej@redhat.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de, waiman.long@hp.com, oleg@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pbonzini@redhat.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 spinlock: Fix memory corruption on completing completions
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 18:22:21 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54D8AD85.1070409@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150209120227.GT21418@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On 02/09/2015 05:32 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 03:04:22PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote:
>> So we have 3 choices,
>> 1. xadd
>> 2. continue with current approach.
>> 3. a read before unlock and also after that.
>
> For the truly paranoid we have probe_kernel_address(), suppose the lock
> was in module space and the module just got unloaded under us.
>

Thanks.. Good idea, How costly is it?
atleast we could do probe_kernel_address() and check the value of
slowpath flag if people as us to address invalid read problem.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-09 12:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1423234148-13886-1-git-send-email-raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-06 15:20 ` [PATCH] x86 spinlock: Fix memory corruption on completing completions Sasha Levin
2015-02-06 16:15   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-06 17:03     ` Andrey Ryabinin
2015-02-08 17:14   ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-06 16:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-06 19:42   ` Davidlohr Bueso
     [not found]   ` <1423251764.1057.1.camel@stgolabs.net>
2015-02-06 21:15     ` Sasha Levin
2015-02-06 23:24       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-02-08 17:49   ` Raghavendra K T
2015-02-06 18:57 ` Sasha Levin
2015-02-08 17:57   ` Raghavendra K T
2015-02-08 21:14 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
     [not found] ` <54D7D19B.1000103@goop.org>
2015-02-09  9:34   ` Raghavendra K T
     [not found]   ` <54D87F1E.9060307@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-09 12:02     ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-02-09 12:52       ` Raghavendra K T [this message]
2015-02-10  0:53       ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-10  9:30         ` Raghavendra K T
2015-02-10 13:18           ` Denys Vlasenko
     [not found]           ` <CAK1hOcNZ+hfjt=CmtZumPoFQRdQbf9SSEF0cOWv9-9ku0K7bcg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-02-10 13:20             ` Denys Vlasenko
2015-02-10 14:24             ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-10 13:23           ` Sasha Levin
2015-02-10 13:26           ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-11  1:18             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2015-02-11 17:24               ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-11 23:15                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
     [not found]                 ` <54DBE27C.8050105@goop.org>
2015-02-11 23:28                   ` Linus Torvalds
2015-02-12  7:08                     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2015-02-12 14:18                   ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-11 11:08             ` Raghavendra K T
     [not found]             ` <54DB384A.2050305@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-11 17:38               ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-02-11 18:38                 ` Raghavendra K T
2015-02-06 14:49 Raghavendra K T

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