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kcsan: Change data_race() to no longer require marking racing accesses

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Thus far, accesses marked with data_race() would still require the
racing access to be marked in some way (be it with READ_ONCE(),
WRITE_ONCE(), or data_race() itself), as otherwise KCSAN would still
report a data race.  This requirement, however, seems to be unintuitive,
and some valid use-cases demand *not* marking other accesses, as it
might hide more serious bugs (e.g. diagnostic reads).

Therefore, this commit changes data_race() to no longer require marking
racing accesses (although it's still recommended if possible).

The alternative would have been introducing another variant of
data_race(), however, since usage of data_race() already needs to be
carefully reasoned about, distinguishing between these cases likely adds
more complexity in the wrong place.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200331131002.GA30975@willie-the-truck
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Marco Elver 2020-03-31 21:32:33 +02:00 committed by Paul E. McKenney
parent 01b4ff58f7
commit d071e91361
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -326,9 +326,9 @@ unsigned long read_word_at_a_time(const void *addr)
#define data_race(expr) \
({ \
typeof(({ expr; })) __val; \
kcsan_nestable_atomic_begin(); \
kcsan_disable_current(); \
__val = ({ expr; }); \
kcsan_nestable_atomic_end(); \
kcsan_enable_current(); \
__val; \
})
#else