Re: [PATCH 4.19 032/114] timer: Read jiffies once when forwarding base clk

[Pavel Machek]

On Thu 2019-10-10 10:35:39, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> From: Li RongQing <lirongq...@baidu.com>
> 
> commit e430d802d6a3aaf61bd3ed03d9404888a29b9bf9 upstream.
> 
> The reason is that the code in collect_expired_timers() uses jiffies
> unprotected:
> 
>     if (next_event > jiffies)
>         base->clk = jiffies;
> 
> As the compiler is allowed to reload the value base->clk can advance
> between the check and the store and in the worst case advance farther than
> next event. That causes the timer expiry to be delayed until the wheel
> pointer wraps around.
> 
> Convert the code to use READ_ONCE()

Does it really need to use READ_ONCE? "jiffies" is already volatile,
READ_ONCE just adds another volatile...

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