4.2.8-ckt2 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 093e5840ae76f1082633503964d035f40ed0216d upstream.
In the following commit:
7675104990ed ("sched: Implement lockless wake-queues")
we gained lockless wake-queues.
The -RT kernel managed to lockup itself with those. There could be multiple
attempts for task X to enqueue it for a wakeup _even_ if task X is already
running.
The reason is that task X could be runnable but not yet on CPU. The the
task performing the wakeup did not leave the CPU it could performe
multiple wakeups.
With the proper timming task X could be running and enqueued for a
wakeup. If this happens while X is performing a fork() then its its
child will have a !NULL `wake_q` member copied.
This is not a problem as long as the child task does not participate in
lockless wakeups :)
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 7675104990ed ("sched: Implement lockless wake-queues")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151221171710.GA5499@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/fork.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index e769c8c..a0fb0ce 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -379,6 +379,7 @@ static struct task_struct *dup_task_struct(struct task_struct *orig)
#endif
tsk->splice_pipe = NULL;
tsk->task_frag.page = NULL;
+ tsk->wake_q.next = NULL;
account_kernel_stack(ti, 1);
--
1.9.1
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