The commit 91d2a812dfb9 ("locking/rwsem: Make handoff writer
optimistically spin on owner") will allow a recently woken up waiting
writer to spin on the owner. Unfortunately, if the owner happens to be
RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN, the code will incorrectly spin on it leading to a
kernel crash. This is fixed by passing the proper non-spinnable bits
to rwsem_spin_on_owner() so that RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN will be treated
as a non-spinnable target.
Fixes: 91d2a812dfb9 ("locking/rwsem: Make handoff writer optimistically spin on owner")
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/locking/rwsem.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/locking/rwsem.c b/kernel/locking/rwsem.c
index 44e68761f432..0d9b6be9ecc8 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rwsem.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem.c
@@ -1226,8 +1226,8 @@ rwsem_down_write_slowpath(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int state)
* In this case, we attempt to acquire the lock again
* without sleeping.
*/
- if ((wstate == WRITER_HANDOFF) &&
- (rwsem_spin_on_owner(sem, 0) == OWNER_NULL))
+ if (wstate == WRITER_HANDOFF &&
+ rwsem_spin_on_owner(sem, RWSEM_NONSPINNABLE) == OWNER_NULL)
goto trylock_again;
/* Block until there are no active lockers. */
--
2.18.1
