This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled SUNRPC: Add barriers to ensure read ordering in rpc_wake_up_task_queue_locked to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: sunrpc-add-barriers-to-ensure-read-ordering-in-rpc_wake_up_task_queue_locked.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 1166fde6a923c30f4351515b6a9a1efc513e7d00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:23:40 -0400 Subject: SUNRPC: Add barriers to ensure read ordering in rpc_wake_up_task_queue_locked From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 1166fde6a923c30f4351515b6a9a1efc513e7d00 upstream. We need to be careful when testing task->tk_waitqueue in rpc_wake_up_task_queue_locked, because it can be changed while we are holding the queue->lock. By adding appropriate memory barriers, we can ensure that it is safe to test task->tk_waitqueue for equality if the RPC_TASK_QUEUED bit is set. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sunrpc/sched.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/sunrpc/sched.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/sched.c @@ -143,6 +143,8 @@ static void __rpc_add_wait_queue(struct list_add_tail(&task->u.tk_wait.list, &queue->tasks[0]); task->tk_waitqueue = queue; queue->qlen++; + /* barrier matches the read in rpc_wake_up_task_queue_locked() */ + smp_wmb(); rpc_set_queued(task); dprintk("RPC: %5u added to queue %p \"%s\"\n", @@ -399,8 +401,11 @@ static void __rpc_do_wake_up_task(struct */ static void rpc_wake_up_task_queue_locked(struct rpc_wait_queue *queue, struct rpc_task *task) { - if (RPC_IS_QUEUED(task) && task->tk_waitqueue == queue) - __rpc_do_wake_up_task(queue, task); + if (RPC_IS_QUEUED(task)) { + smp_rmb(); + if (task->tk_waitqueue == queue) + __rpc_do_wake_up_task(queue, task); + } } /* Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.4/sunrpc-add-barriers-to-ensure-read-ordering-in-rpc_wake_up_task_queue_locked.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html