4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ [ Upstream commit e158488be27b157802753a59b336142dc0eb0380 ] Because wake_q_add() can imply an immediate wakeup (cmpxchg failure case), we must not rely on the wakeup being delayed. However, commit: e38513905eea ("locking/rwsem: Rework zeroing reader waiter->task") relies on exactly that behaviour in that the wakeup must not happen until after we clear waiter->task. [ peterz: Added changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yu <zhangyu31@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: e38513905eea ("locking/rwsem: Rework zeroing reader waiter->task") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1543495830-2644-1-git-send-email-xieyongji@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c b/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c index a903367793758..c75017326c37a 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c +++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c @@ -198,15 +198,22 @@ static void __rwsem_mark_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem, woken++; tsk = waiter->task; - wake_q_add(wake_q, tsk); + get_task_struct(tsk); list_del(&waiter->list); /* - * Ensure that the last operation is setting the reader + * Ensure calling get_task_struct() before setting the reader * waiter to nil such that rwsem_down_read_failed() cannot * race with do_exit() by always holding a reference count * to the task to wakeup. */ smp_store_release(&waiter->task, NULL); + /* + * Ensure issuing the wakeup (either by us or someone else) + * after setting the reader waiter to nil. + */ + wake_q_add(wake_q, tsk); + /* wake_q_add() already take the task ref */ + put_task_struct(tsk); } adjustment = woken * RWSEM_ACTIVE_READ_BIAS - adjustment; -- 2.19.1