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From: tip-bot for Kirill Tkhai <tipbot@zytor.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: ktkhai@virtuozzo.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
	niklas.cassel@axis.com, hpa@zytor.com, mingo@kernel.org,
	peterz@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: [tip:locking/urgent] locking/rwsem-spinlock: Fix EINTR branch in __down_write_common()
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 07:27:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-a0c4acd2c220376b4e9690e75782d0c0afdaab9f@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <149762063282.19811.9129615532201147826.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

Commit-ID:  a0c4acd2c220376b4e9690e75782d0c0afdaab9f
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/a0c4acd2c220376b4e9690e75782d0c0afdaab9f
Author:     Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
AuthorDate: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 16:44:34 +0300
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 12:26:29 +0200

locking/rwsem-spinlock: Fix EINTR branch in __down_write_common()

If a writer could been woken up, the above branch

	if (sem->count == 0)
		break;

would have moved us to taking the sem. So, it's
not the time to wake a writer now, and only readers
are allowed now. Thus, 0 must be passed to __rwsem_do_wake().

Next, __rwsem_do_wake() wakes readers unconditionally.
But we mustn't do that if the sem is owned by writer
in the moment. Otherwise, writer and reader own the sem
the same time, which leads to memory corruption in
callers.

rwsem-xadd.c does not need that, as:

  1) the similar check is made lockless there,
  2) in __rwsem_mark_wake::try_reader_grant we test,

that sem is not owned by writer.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@axis.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 17fcbd590d0c "locking/rwsem: Fix down_write_killable() for CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK=y"
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149762063282.19811.9129615532201147826.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c b/kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c
index c65f798..20819df 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c
@@ -231,8 +231,8 @@ int __sched __down_write_common(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int state)
 
 out_nolock:
 	list_del(&waiter.list);
-	if (!list_empty(&sem->wait_list))
-		__rwsem_do_wake(sem, 1);
+	if (!list_empty(&sem->wait_list) && sem->count >= 0)
+		__rwsem_do_wake(sem, 0);
 	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sem->wait_lock, flags);
 
 	return -EINTR;

       reply	other threads:[~2017-07-05 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <149762063282.19811.9129615532201147826.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
2017-07-05 14:27 ` tip-bot for Kirill Tkhai [this message]
2017-07-05 14:45   ` [tip:locking/urgent] locking/rwsem-spinlock: Fix EINTR branch in __down_write_common() Niklas Cassel
2017-07-06  7:28     ` Ingo Molnar
2017-07-06  7:42       ` Peter Zijlstra

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