From: Roman Penyaev <rpenyaev@xxxxxxx> commit 1b53734bd0b2feed8e7761771b2e76fc9126ea0c upstream. This fixes possible lost wakeup introduced by commit a218cc491420. Originally modifications to ep->wq were serialized by ep->wq.lock, but in commit a218cc491420 ("epoll: use rwlock in order to reduce ep_poll_callback() contention") a new rw lock was introduced in order to relax fd event path, i.e. callers of ep_poll_callback() function. After the change ep_modify and ep_insert (both are called on epoll_ctl() path) were switched to ep->lock, but ep_poll (epoll_wait) was using ep->wq.lock on wqueue list modification. The bug doesn't lead to any wqueue list corruptions, because wake up path and list modifications were serialized by ep->wq.lock internally, but actual waitqueue_active() check prior wake_up() call can be reordered with modifications of ep ready list, thus wake up can be lost. And yes, can be healed by explicit smp_mb(): list_add_tail(&epi->rdlink, &ep->rdllist); smp_mb(); if (waitqueue_active(&ep->wq)) wake_up(&ep->wp); But let's make it simple, thus current patch replaces ep->wq.lock with the ep->lock for wqueue modifications, thus wake up path always observes activeness of the wqueue correcty. Fixes: a218cc491420 ("epoll: use rwlock in order to reduce ep_poll_callback() contention") Reported-by: Max Neunhoeffer <max@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Roman Penyaev <rpenyaev@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Max Neunhoeffer <max@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christopher Kohlhoff <chris.kohlhoff@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@xxxxxxx> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes.sorensen@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [5.1+] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200214170211.561524-1-rpenyaev@xxxxxxx Bisected-by: Max Neunhoeffer <max@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/eventpoll.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/fs/eventpoll.c +++ b/fs/eventpoll.c @@ -1860,9 +1860,9 @@ fetch_events: waiter = true; init_waitqueue_entry(&wait, current); - spin_lock_irq(&ep->wq.lock); + write_lock_irq(&ep->lock); __add_wait_queue_exclusive(&ep->wq, &wait); - spin_unlock_irq(&ep->wq.lock); + write_unlock_irq(&ep->lock); } for (;;) { @@ -1910,9 +1910,9 @@ send_events: goto fetch_events; if (waiter) { - spin_lock_irq(&ep->wq.lock); + write_lock_irq(&ep->lock); __remove_wait_queue(&ep->wq, &wait); - spin_unlock_irq(&ep->wq.lock); + write_unlock_irq(&ep->lock); } return res;