From 2f073848c3cc8aff2655ab7c46d8c0de90cf4e50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 16:56:42 -0700
Subject: list: Use WRITE_ONCE() when initializing list_head structures

Code that does lockless emptiness testing of non-RCU lists is relying
on INIT_LIST_HEAD() to write the list head's ->next pointer atomically,
particularly when INIT_LIST_HEAD() is invoked from list_del_init().
This commit therefore adds WRITE_ONCE() to this function's pointer stores
that could affect the head's ->next pointer.

Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

diff --git a/include/linux/list.h b/include/linux/list.h
index 06c2d88..5356f4d 100644
--- a/include/linux/list.h
+++ b/include/linux/list.h
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 static inline void INIT_LIST_HEAD(struct list_head *list)
 {
-	list->next = list;
+	WRITE_ONCE(list->next, list);
 	list->prev = list;
 }
 
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