From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Mike Galbraith , Tejun Heo Subject: [ 10/20] workqueue: exit rescuer_thread() as TASK_RUNNING Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 16:54:25 -0800 Message-Id: <20121207005235.686524792@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20121207005232.756641002@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20121207005232.756641002@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Mike Galbraith commit 412d32e6c98527078779e5b515823b2810e40324 upstream. A rescue thread exiting TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE can lead to a task scheduling off, never to be seen again. In the case where this occurred, an exiting thread hit reiserfs homebrew conditional resched while holding a mutex, bringing the box to its knees. PID: 18105 TASK: ffff8807fd412180 CPU: 5 COMMAND: "kdmflush" #0 [ffff8808157e7670] schedule at ffffffff8143f489 #1 [ffff8808157e77b8] reiserfs_get_block at ffffffffa038ab2d [reiserfs] #2 [ffff8808157e79a8] __block_write_begin at ffffffff8117fb14 #3 [ffff8808157e7a98] reiserfs_write_begin at ffffffffa0388695 [reiserfs] #4 [ffff8808157e7ad8] generic_perform_write at ffffffff810ee9e2 #5 [ffff8808157e7b58] generic_file_buffered_write at ffffffff810eeb41 #6 [ffff8808157e7ba8] __generic_file_aio_write at ffffffff810f1a3a #7 [ffff8808157e7c58] generic_file_aio_write at ffffffff810f1c88 #8 [ffff8808157e7cc8] do_sync_write at ffffffff8114f850 #9 [ffff8808157e7dd8] do_acct_process at ffffffff810a268f [exception RIP: kernel_thread_helper] RIP: ffffffff8144a5c0 RSP: ffff8808157e7f58 RFLAGS: 00000202 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8107af60 RDI: ffff8803ee491d18 RBP: 0000000000000000 R8: 0000000000000000 R9: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018 Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/workqueue.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -2040,8 +2040,10 @@ static int rescuer_thread(void *__wq) repeat: set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); - if (kthread_should_stop()) + if (kthread_should_stop()) { + __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); return 0; + } /* * See whether any cpu is asking for help. Unbounded