> On 6 Jan 2025, at 20:07, Vitaliy Makkoveev <mvs@openbsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 6 Jan 2025, at 19:45, Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> 
>>> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2025 18:58:16 +0300
>>> From: Vitaliy Makkoveev <mvs@openbsd.org>
>>> 
>>> This is the lockless access, so do it.
>> 
>> Sorry, but once again, I don't think this makes sense.  Atomic access
>> doesn't mean blindly replacing assignments with
>> READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() or atomic_load_int()/atomic_store_int().  The
>> diff below makes me strongly suspect accessing so_error without
>> holding some sort of lock isn't actually safe.  At the very minimum
>> you're missing some memory barriers here!
>> 
>> 
> 
> This is not the blindly replacing, we need WRITE_ONCE()/READ_ONCE()
> here to prevent reordering and be sure, so_error value is not cached.

What do you expect from memory barriers here?

> 
>>> Index: sys/kern/uipc_socket.c
>>> ===================================================================
>>> RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c,v
>>> diff -u -p -r1.356 uipc_socket.c
>>> --- sys/kern/uipc_socket.c	4 Jan 2025 15:57:02 -0000	1.356
>>> +++ sys/kern/uipc_socket.c	6 Jan 2025 15:53:54 -0000
>>> @@ -640,7 +640,7 @@ restart:
>>> 		if (so->so_snd.sb_state & SS_CANTSENDMORE)
>>> 			snderr(EPIPE);
>>> 		if ((error = READ_ONCE(so->so_error))) {
>>> -			so->so_error = 0;
>>> +			WRITE_ONCE(so->so_error, 0);
>>> 			snderr(error);
>>> 		}
>>> 		if ((so->so_state & SS_ISCONNECTED) == 0) {
>>> @@ -934,7 +934,7 @@ restart:
>>> 				goto dontblock;
>>> 			error = error2;
>>> 			if ((flags & MSG_PEEK) == 0)
>>> -				so->so_error = 0;
>>> +				WRITE_ONCE(so->so_error, 0);
>>> 			goto release;
>>> 		}
>>> 		if (so->so_rcv.sb_state & SS_CANTRCVMORE) {
>>> @@ -1204,7 +1204,7 @@ dontblock:
>>> 		while (flags & MSG_WAITALL && m == NULL && uio->uio_resid > 0 &&
>>> 		    !sosendallatonce(so) && !nextrecord) {
>>> 			if (so->so_rcv.sb_state & SS_CANTRCVMORE ||
>>> -			    so->so_error)
>>> +			    READ_ONCE(so->so_error))
>>> 				break;
>>> 			SBLASTRECORDCHK(&so->so_rcv, "soreceive sbwait 2");
>>> 			SBLASTMBUFCHK(&so->so_rcv, "soreceive sbwait 2");
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>