This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
wait: fix false timeouts when using wait_event_timeout()
to the 3.9-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:
wait-fix-false-timeouts-when-using-wait_event_timeout.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 4c663cfc523a88d97a8309b04a089c27dc57fd7e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Imre Deak <imre.deak@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 15:55:09 -0700
Subject: wait: fix false timeouts when using wait_event_timeout()
From: Imre Deak <imre.deak@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 4c663cfc523a88d97a8309b04a089c27dc57fd7e upstream.
Many callers of the wait_event_timeout() and
wait_event_interruptible_timeout() expect that the return value will be
positive if the specified condition becomes true before the timeout
elapses. However, at the moment this isn't guaranteed. If the wake-up
handler is delayed enough, the time remaining until timeout will be
calculated as 0 - and passed back as a return value - even if the
condition became true before the timeout has passed.
Fix this by returning at least 1 if the condition becomes true. This
semantic is in line with what wait_for_condition_timeout() does; see
commit bb10ed09 ("sched: fix wait_for_completion_timeout() spurious
failure under heavy load").
Daniel said "We have 3 instances of this bug in drm/i915. One case even
where we switch between the interruptible and not interruptible
wait_event_timeout variants, foolishly presuming they have the same
semantics. I very much like this."
One such bug is reported at
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64133
Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/wait.h | 16 +++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/include/linux/wait.h
+++ b/include/linux/wait.h
@@ -217,6 +217,8 @@ do { \
if (!ret) \
break; \
} \
+ if (!ret && (condition)) \
+ ret = 1; \
finish_wait(&wq, &__wait); \
} while (0)
@@ -233,8 +235,9 @@ do { \
* wake_up() has to be called after changing any variable that could
* change the result of the wait condition.
*
- * The function returns 0 if the @timeout elapsed, and the remaining
- * jiffies if the condition evaluated to true before the timeout elapsed.
+ * The function returns 0 if the @timeout elapsed, or the remaining
+ * jiffies (at least 1) if the @condition evaluated to %true before
+ * the @timeout elapsed.
*/
#define wait_event_timeout(wq, condition, timeout) \
({ \
@@ -302,6 +305,8 @@ do { \
ret = -ERESTARTSYS; \
break; \
} \
+ if (!ret && (condition)) \
+ ret = 1; \
finish_wait(&wq, &__wait); \
} while (0)
@@ -318,9 +323,10 @@ do { \
* wake_up() has to be called after changing any variable that could
* change the result of the wait condition.
*
- * The function returns 0 if the @timeout elapsed, -ERESTARTSYS if it
- * was interrupted by a signal, and the remaining jiffies otherwise
- * if the condition evaluated to true before the timeout elapsed.
+ * Returns:
+ * 0 if the @timeout elapsed, -%ERESTARTSYS if it was interrupted by
+ * a signal, or the remaining jiffies (at least 1) if the @condition
+ * evaluated to %true before the @timeout elapsed.
*/
#define wait_event_interruptible_timeout(wq, condition, timeout) \
({ \
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from imre.deak@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.9/wait-fix-false-timeouts-when-using-wait_event_timeout.patch
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