Daniel Borkmann 1bfceb3750 bpf, arm64: remove prefetch insn in xadd mapping
commit 8968c67a82 upstream.

Prefetch-with-intent-to-write is currently part of the XADD mapping in
the AArch64 JIT and follows the kernel's implementation of atomic_add.
This may interfere with other threads executing the LDXR/STXR loop,
leading to potential starvation and fairness issues. Drop the optional
prefetch instruction.

Fixes: 85f68fe898 ("bpf, arm64: implement jiting of BPF_XADD")
Reported-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe.brucker@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-22 07:37:38 +02:00
2019-05-16 19:41:22 +02:00
2019-05-16 19:41:32 +02:00

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