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Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2019 15:28:35 +0000
From: David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To: 'Alan Stern' <stern@...land.harvard.edu>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, LKML
<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Android Kernel Team
<kernel-team@...roid.com>, Kernel Hardening
<kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, Andrew Morton
<akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, "Michal
Hocko" <mhocko@...e.com>, "Reshetova, Elena" <elena.reshetova@...el.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Convert struct pid count to refcount_t
From: Alan Stern
> Sent: 29 March 2019 19:45
...
> There is a big difference between WRITE_ONCE() and plain assignment.
> Given "WRITE_ONCE(X, 2)", the compiler will emit a simple store
> instruction. But given "X = 2", the compiler is allowed to emit
> instructions equivalent to:
>
> if (X != 2)
> X = 2;
Worse for you, it can also emit:
X = 0;
X = 2;
Many years ago I fell foul of a compiler (not C) that implemented
a write to a 2 bit wide bitfield as:
X &= ~3
X |= value
even when 'value' was a compile time constant of 3.
Took a while to find out why the linked list got f*cked.
David
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