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The following (anti-)pattern was observed in the code tree:
do {
start = u64_stats_fetch_begin(&pstats->syncp);
memcpy(&temp, &pstats->stats, sizeof(temp));
} while (u64_stats_fetch_retry(&pstats->syncp, start));
On 64bit arches, struct u64_stats_sync is empty and provides no help
against load/store tearing, especially for memcpy(), for which arches may
provide their highly-optimized implements.
In theory the affected code should convert to u64_stats_t, or use
READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() properly.
However since there are needs to copy chunks of statistics, instead of
writing loops at random places, we provide a safe memcpy() variant for
u64_stats.
Signed-off-by: David Yang <mmyangfl@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260120092137.2161162-2-mmyangfl@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>