tree ade0dea534f5395301626eeb829dfa8e07626514
parent f8f8bdc48851da979c6e0e4808b6031122e4af47
author Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com> 1446732056 +0000
committer Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> 1446744580 +0000

arm64: cmpxchg_dbl: fix return value type

The current arm64 __cmpxchg_double{_mb} implementations carry out the
compare exchange by first comparing the old values passed in to the
values read from the pointer provided and by stashing the cumulative
bitwise difference in a 64-bit register.

By comparing the register content against 0, it is possible to detect if
the values read differ from the old values passed in, so that the compare
exchange detects whether it has to bail out or carry on completing the
operation with the exchange.

Given the current implementation, to detect the cmpxchg operation
status, the __cmpxchg_double{_mb} functions should return the 64-bit
stashed bitwise difference so that the caller can detect cmpxchg failure
by comparing the return value content against 0. The current implementation
declares the return value as an int, which means that the 64-bit
value stashing the bitwise difference is truncated before being
returned to the __cmpxchg_double{_mb} callers, which means that
any bitwise difference present in the top 32 bits goes undetected,
triggering false positives and subsequent kernel failures.

This patch fixes the issue by declaring the arm64 __cmpxchg_double{_mb}
return values as a long, so that the bitwise difference is
properly propagated on failure, restoring the expected behaviour.

Fixes: e9a4b795652f ("arm64: cmpxchg_dbl: patch in lse instructions when supported by the CPU")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.3+
Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>