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lib: Ensure EWMA does not store wrong intermediate values

To ensure ewma_read() without a lock returns a valid but possibly
out of date average, modify ewma_add() by using ACCESS_ONCE to prevent
intermediate wrong values from being written to avg->internal.

Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Dalton <mwdalton@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Michael Dalton пре 12 година
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  1. 4 2
      lib/average.c

+ 4 - 2
lib/average.c

@@ -53,8 +53,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ewma_init);
  */
 struct ewma *ewma_add(struct ewma *avg, unsigned long val)
 {
-	avg->internal = avg->internal  ?
-		(((avg->internal << avg->weight) - avg->internal) +
+	unsigned long internal = ACCESS_ONCE(avg->internal);
+
+	ACCESS_ONCE(avg->internal) = internal ?
+		(((internal << avg->weight) - internal) +
 			(val << avg->factor)) >> avg->weight :
 		(val << avg->factor);
 	return avg;