SeongJae Park 01b5022f0a mm/page_reporting: replace rcu_access_pointer() with rcu_dereference_protected() ...

Page reporting fetches pr_dev_info using rcu_access_pointer(), which is
for safely fetching a pointer that will not be dereferenced but could
concurrently updated.  The code indeed does not dereference pr_dev_info
after fetching it using rcu_access_pointer(), but it fetches the pointer
while concurrent updates to the pointer is avoided by holding the update
side lock, page_reporting_mutex.

In the case, rcu_dereference_protected() should be used instead because it
provides better readability and performance on some cases, as
rcu_dereference_protected() avoids use of READ_ONCE().  Replace the
rcu_access_pointer() calls with rcu_dereference_protected().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221228175942.149491-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 36e66c554b ("mm: introduce Reported pages")
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

2023-01-18 17:12:50 -08:00

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