[PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 13/27] locking/rwsem: Fix (possible) missed wakeup

Sasha Levin
2019-02-15T02:14:57Z

From: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@baidu.com>

[ 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@baidu.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yu <zhangyu31@baidu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: e38513905eea ("locking/rwsem: Rework zeroing reader waiter->task")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1543495830-2644-1-git-send-email-xieyongji@baidu.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
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 a4112dfcd0fb..be06c45cbe4f 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c
@@ -195,15 +195,22 @@ 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