From 3ed1f8a99d70ea1cd1508910eb107d0edcae5009 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Manfred Spraul Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 15:35:10 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] ipc/sem.c: update/correct memory barriers sem_lock() did not properly pair memory barriers: !spin_is_locked() and spin_unlock_wait() are both only control barriers. The code needs an acquire barrier, otherwise the cpu might perform read operations before the lock test. As no primitive exists inside and since it seems noone wants another primitive, the code creates a local primitive within ipc/sem.c. With regards to -stable: The change of sem_wait_array() is a bugfix, the change to sem_lock() is a nop (just a preprocessor redefinition to improve the readability). The bugfix is necessary for all kernels that use sem_wait_array() (i.e.: starting from 3.10). Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Kirill Tkhai Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: [3.10+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed