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authorChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2024-09-25 12:05:16 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2024-12-14 21:54:37 +0300
commit670fc6d14f1076152553c2805437fd11860562df (patch)
tree096e02db07f5224ae7cbe9aac2d8832fe349fc9a /include
parentf8f794f387ad21c4696e5cd0626cb6f8a5f6aea5 (diff)
downloadlinux-670fc6d14f1076152553c2805437fd11860562df.tar.xz
epoll: annotate racy check
[ Upstream commit 6474353a5e3d0b2cf610153cea0c61f576a36d0a ] Epoll relies on a racy fastpath check during __fput() in eventpoll_release() to avoid the hit of pointlessly acquiring a semaphore. Annotate that race by using WRITE_ONCE() and READ_ONCE(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/66edfb3c.050a0220.3195df.001a.GAE@google.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240925-fungieren-anbauen-79b334b00542@brauner Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reported-by: syzbot+3b6b32dc50537a49bb4a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/eventpoll.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/eventpoll.h b/include/linux/eventpoll.h
index 3337745d81bd..0c0d00fcd131 100644
--- a/include/linux/eventpoll.h
+++ b/include/linux/eventpoll.h
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ static inline void eventpoll_release(struct file *file)
* because the file in on the way to be removed and nobody ( but
* eventpoll ) has still a reference to this file.
*/
- if (likely(!file->f_ep))
+ if (likely(!READ_ONCE(file->f_ep)))
return;
/*