android_kernel_oneplus_msm8998/arch/s390/include
Heiko Carstens 5416a88c2f s390/ctl_reg: make __ctl_load a full memory barrier
[ Upstream commit e991c24d68b8c0ba297eeb7af80b1e398e98c33f ]

We have quite a lot of code that depends on the order of the
__ctl_load inline assemby and subsequent memory accesses, like
e.g. disabling lowcore protection and the writing to lowcore.

Since the __ctl_load macro does not have memory barrier semantics, nor
any other dependencies the compiler is, theoretically, free to shuffle
code around. Or in other words: storing to lowcore could happen before
lowcore protection is disabled.

In order to avoid this class of potential bugs simply add a full
memory barrier to the __ctl_load macro.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-07-05 14:37:20 +02:00
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asm s390/ctl_reg: make __ctl_load a full memory barrier 2017-07-05 14:37:20 +02:00
uapi/asm s390: wire up mlock2 system call 2015-11-16 12:51:07 +01:00