This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled workqueue: fix hang involving racing cancel[_delayed]_work_sync()'s for PREEMPT_NONE to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: workqueue-fix-hang-involving-racing-cancel_work_sync-s-for-preempt_none.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 8603e1b30027f943cc9c1eef2b291d42c3347af1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 08:04:13 -0500 Subject: workqueue: fix hang involving racing cancel[_delayed]_work_sync()'s for PREEMPT_NONE From: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 8603e1b30027f943cc9c1eef2b291d42c3347af1 upstream. cancel[_delayed]_work_sync() are implemented using __cancel_work_timer() which grabs the PENDING bit using try_to_grab_pending() and then flushes the work item with PENDING set to prevent the on-going execution of the work item from requeueing itself. try_to_grab_pending() can always grab PENDING bit without blocking except when someone else is doing the above flushing during cancelation. In that case, try_to_grab_pending() returns -ENOENT. In this case, __cancel_work_timer() currently invokes flush_work(). The assumption is that the completion of the work item is what the other canceling task would be waiting for too and thus waiting for the same condition and retrying should allow forward progress without excessive busy looping Unfortunately, this doesn't work if preemption is disabled or the latter task has real time priority. Let's say task A just got woken up from flush_work() by the completion of the target work item. If, before task A starts executing, task B gets scheduled and invokes __cancel_work_timer() on the same work item, its try_to_grab_pending() will return -ENOENT as the work item is still being canceled by task A and flush_work() will also immediately return false as the work item is no longer executing. This puts task B in a busy loop possibly preventing task A from executing and clearing the canceling state on the work item leading to a hang. task A task B worker executing work __cancel_work_timer() try_to_grab_pending() set work CANCELING flush_work() block for work completion completion, wakes up A __cancel_work_timer() while (forever) { try_to_grab_pending() -ENOENT as work is being canceled flush_work() false as work is no longer executing } This patch removes the possible hang by updating __cancel_work_timer() to explicitly wait for clearing of CANCELING rather than invoking flush_work() after try_to_grab_pending() fails with -ENOENT. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20150206171156.GA8942@xxxxxxxx v3: bit_waitqueue() can't be used for work items defined in vmalloc area. Switched to custom wake function which matches the target work item and exclusive wait and wakeup. v2: v1 used wake_up() on bit_waitqueue() which leads to NULL deref if the target bit waitqueue has wait_bit_queue's on it. Use DEFINE_WAIT_BIT() and __wake_up_bit() instead. Reported by Tomeu Vizoso. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@xxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin.vincent@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/workqueue.h | 3 +- kernel/workqueue.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/workqueue.h +++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h @@ -71,7 +71,8 @@ enum { /* data contains off-queue information when !WORK_STRUCT_PWQ */ WORK_OFFQ_FLAG_BASE = WORK_STRUCT_COLOR_SHIFT, - WORK_OFFQ_CANCELING = (1 << WORK_OFFQ_FLAG_BASE), + __WORK_OFFQ_CANCELING = WORK_OFFQ_FLAG_BASE, + WORK_OFFQ_CANCELING = (1 << __WORK_OFFQ_CANCELING), /* * When a work item is off queue, its high bits point to the last --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -2861,19 +2861,57 @@ bool flush_work(struct work_struct *work } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(flush_work); +struct cwt_wait { + wait_queue_t wait; + struct work_struct *work; +}; + +static int cwt_wakefn(wait_queue_t *wait, unsigned mode, int sync, void *key) +{ + struct cwt_wait *cwait = container_of(wait, struct cwt_wait, wait); + + if (cwait->work != key) + return 0; + return autoremove_wake_function(wait, mode, sync, key); +} + static bool __cancel_work_timer(struct work_struct *work, bool is_dwork) { + static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(cancel_waitq); unsigned long flags; int ret; do { ret = try_to_grab_pending(work, is_dwork, &flags); /* - * If someone else is canceling, wait for the same event it - * would be waiting for before retrying. + * If someone else is already canceling, wait for it to + * finish. flush_work() doesn't work for PREEMPT_NONE + * because we may get scheduled between @work's completion + * and the other canceling task resuming and clearing + * CANCELING - flush_work() will return false immediately + * as @work is no longer busy, try_to_grab_pending() will + * return -ENOENT as @work is still being canceled and the + * other canceling task won't be able to clear CANCELING as + * we're hogging the CPU. + * + * Let's wait for completion using a waitqueue. As this + * may lead to the thundering herd problem, use a custom + * wake function which matches @work along with exclusive + * wait and wakeup. */ - if (unlikely(ret == -ENOENT)) - flush_work(work); + if (unlikely(ret == -ENOENT)) { + struct cwt_wait cwait; + + init_wait(&cwait.wait); + cwait.wait.func = cwt_wakefn; + cwait.work = work; + + prepare_to_wait_exclusive(&cancel_waitq, &cwait.wait, + TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); + if (work_is_canceling(work)) + schedule(); + finish_wait(&cancel_waitq, &cwait.wait); + } } while (unlikely(ret < 0)); /* tell other tasks trying to grab @work to back off */ @@ -2882,6 +2920,16 @@ static bool __cancel_work_timer(struct w flush_work(work); clear_work_data(work); + + /* + * Paired with prepare_to_wait() above so that either + * waitqueue_active() is visible here or !work_is_canceling() is + * visible there. + */ + smp_mb(); + if (waitqueue_active(&cancel_waitq)) + __wake_up(&cancel_waitq, TASK_NORMAL, 1, work); + return ret; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tj@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/workqueue-fix-hang-involving-racing-cancel_work_sync-s-for-preempt_none.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html