From 108a7ac448caff8e35e8c3f92f65faad893e5aca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 15:48:28 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] include/linux/page_ref.h: ensure page_ref_unfreeze is ordered
 against prior accesses

page_ref_freeze and page_ref_unfreeze are designed to be used as a pair,
wrapping a critical section where struct pages can be modified without
having to worry about consistency for a concurrent fast-GUP.

Whilst page_ref_freeze has full barrier semantics due to its use of
atomic_cmpxchg, page_ref_unfreeze is implemented using atomic_set, which
doesn't provide any barrier semantics and allows the operation to be
reordered with respect to page modifications in the critical section.

This patch ensures that page_ref_unfreeze is ordered after any critical
section updates, by invoking smp_mb() prior to the atomic_set.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1497349722-6731-3-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 include/linux/page_ref.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/page_ref.h b/include/linux/page_ref.h
index 610e132719184..1fd71733aa68e 100644
--- a/include/linux/page_ref.h
+++ b/include/linux/page_ref.h
@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ static inline void page_ref_unfreeze(struct page *page, int count)
 	VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_count(page) != 0, page);
 	VM_BUG_ON(count == 0);
 
+	smp_mb();
 	atomic_set(&page->_refcount, count);
 	if (page_ref_tracepoint_active(__tracepoint_page_ref_unfreeze))
 		__page_ref_unfreeze(page, count);
-- 
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