atomic/tty: Fix up atomic abuse in ldsem
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Tue, 5 Jun 2018 14:53:34 +0000 (16:53 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 12:07:55 +0000 (21:07 +0900)
commit5fd691afdf929061c391d897fa627822c3b2fd5a
tree005d50f2b2bc10ce6e6af270feaa1fc1efe77eae
parent9d9398944488cd3a3e1e0912b26fbc4d5921e547
atomic/tty: Fix up atomic abuse in ldsem

Mark found ldsem_cmpxchg() needed an (atomic_long_t *) cast to keep
working after making the atomic_long interface type safe.

Needing casts is bad form, which made me look at the code. There are no
ld_semaphore::count users outside of these functions so there is no
reason why it can not be an atomic_long_t in the first place, obviating
the need for this cast.

That also ensures the loads use atomic_long_read(), which implies (at
least) READ_ONCE() in order to guarantee single-copy-atomic loads.

When using atomic_long_try_cmpxchg() the ldsem_cmpxchg() wrapper gets
very thin (the only difference is not changing *old on success, which
most callers don't seem to care about).

So rework the whole thing to use atomic_long_t and its accessors
directly.

While there, fixup all the horrible comment styles.

Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/tty_ldsem.c
include/linux/tty_ldisc.h