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commit66be4e66a7upstream. Herbert Xu pointed out that commitbb73c52bad("rcu: Don't disable preemption for Tiny and Tree RCU readers") was incorrect in making the preempt_disable/enable() be conditional on CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT. If CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT isn't enabled, the preemption enable/disable is a no-op, but still is a compiler barrier. And RCU locking still _needs_ that compiler barrier. It is simply fundamentally not true that RCU locking would be a complete no-op: we still need to guarantee (for example) that things that can trap and cause preemption cannot migrate into the RCU locked region. The way we do that is by making it a barrier. See for example commit386afc9114("spinlocks and preemption points need to be at least compiler barriers") from back in 2013 that had similar issues with spinlocks that become no-ops on UP: they must still constrain the compiler from moving other operations into the critical region. Now, it is true that a lot of RCU operations already use READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() (which in practice likely would never be re-ordered wrt anything remotely interesting), but it is also true that that is not globally the case, and that it's not even necessarily always possible (ie bitfields etc). Reported-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Fixes:bb73c52bad("rcu: Don't disable preemption for Tiny and Tree RCU readers") Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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