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authorMichal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>2021-11-03 17:58:45 +0100
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2021-11-15 11:34:17 -1000
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cgroup: rstat: Mark benign data race to silence KCSAN
There is a race between updaters and flushers (flush can possibly miss the latest update(s)). This is expected as explained in cgroup_rstat_updated() comment, add also machine readable annotation so that KCSAN results aren't noisy. Reported-by: Hao Sun <sunhao.th@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CACkBjsbPVdkub=e-E-p1WBOLxS515ith-53SFdmFHWV_QMo40w@mail.gmail.com Suggested-by: Hao Sun <sunhao.th@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/cgroup')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup/rstat.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/rstat.c b/kernel/cgroup/rstat.c
index 1486768f2318..1abe74114527 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/rstat.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/rstat.c
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ void cgroup_rstat_updated(struct cgroup *cgrp, int cpu)
* instead of NULL, we can tell whether @cgrp is on the list by
* testing the next pointer for NULL.
*/
- if (cgroup_rstat_cpu(cgrp, cpu)->updated_next)
+ if (data_race(cgroup_rstat_cpu(cgrp, cpu)->updated_next))
return;
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(cpu_lock, flags);