rculist: Use WRITE_ONCE() when deleting from reader-visible list

The various RCU list-deletion macros (list_del_rcu(),
hlist_del_init_rcu(), hlist_del_rcu(), hlist_bl_del_init_rcu(),
hlist_bl_del_rcu(), hlist_nulls_del_init_rcu(), and hlist_nulls_del_rcu())
do plain stores into the ->next pointer of the preceding list elemment.
Unfortunately, the compiler is within its rights to (for example) use
byte-at-a-time writes to update the pointer, which would fatally confuse
concurrent readers.  This patch therefore adds the needed WRITE_ONCE()
macros.

KernelThreadSanitizer (KTSAN) reported the __hlist_del() issue, which
is a problem when __hlist_del() is invoked by hlist_del_rcu().

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/list_nulls.h b/include/linux/list_nulls.h
index f266661d2666..444d2b1313bd 100644
--- a/include/linux/list_nulls.h
+++ b/include/linux/list_nulls.h
@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ static inline void __hlist_nulls_del(struct hlist_nulls_node *n)
 {
 	struct hlist_nulls_node *next = n->next;
 	struct hlist_nulls_node **pprev = n->pprev;
-	*pprev = next;
+
+	WRITE_ONCE(*pprev, next);
 	if (!is_a_nulls(next))
 		next->pprev = pprev;
 }