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x86: atomic64: Make atomic_read() type-safe

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Linus noticed that atomic64_xchg() uses atomic_read(), which
happens to work because atomic_read() is a macro so the
.counter value gets u64-read on 32-bit too - but this is really
bogus and serious bugs are waiting to happen.

Change atomic_read() to be a type-safe inline, and this exposes
the atomic64 bogosity as well:

  arch/x86/lib/atomic64_32.c: In function ‘atomic64_xchg’:
  arch/x86/lib/atomic64_32.c:39: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘atomic_read’ from incompatible pointer type

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907021653030.3210@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar 2009-07-03 13:06:01 +02:00
parent 3ac805d2af
commit 3217120873
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arch/x86/include/asm/atomic_32.h
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@ -19,7 +19,10 @@
*
* Atomically reads the value of @v.
*/
#define atomic_read(v) ((v)->counter)
static inline int atomic_read(const atomic_t *v)
{
return v->counter;
}
/**
* atomic_set - set atomic variable