3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 741a76b350897604c48fb12beff1c9b77724dc96 ]
Gaurav reported a problem with __kthread_parkme() where a concurrent
try_to_wake_up() could result in competing stores to ->state which,
when the TASK_PARKED store got lost bad things would happen.
The comment near set_current_state() actually mentions this competing
store, but only mentions the case against TASK_RUNNING. This same
store, with different timing, can happen against a subsequent !RUNNING
store.
This normally is not a problem, because as per that same comment, the
!RUNNING state store is inside a condition based wait-loop:
for (;;) {
set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
if (!need_sleep)
break;
schedule();
}
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
If we loose the (first) TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE store to a previous
(concurrent) wakeup, the schedule() will NO-OP and we'll go around the
loop once more.
The problem here is that the TASK_PARKED store is not inside the
KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK condition wait-loop.
There is a genuine issue with sleeps that do not have a condition;
this is addressed in a subsequent patch.
Reported-by: Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/kthread.c | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -156,12 +156,13 @@ void *probe_kthread_data(struct task_str
static void __kthread_parkme(struct kthread *self)
{
- __set_current_state(TASK_PARKED);
- while (test_bit(KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK, &self->flags)) {
+ for (;;) {
+ set_current_state(TASK_PARKED);
+ if (!test_bit(KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK, &self->flags))
+ break;
if (!test_and_set_bit(KTHREAD_IS_PARKED, &self->flags))
complete(&self->parked);
schedule();
- __set_current_state(TASK_PARKED);
}
clear_bit(KTHREAD_IS_PARKED, &self->flags);
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
