[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "workqueue: fix a possible race condition between rescuer and pwq-release" has been added to staging queue
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Tue Jun 17 21:42:07 UTC 2014
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
workqueue: fix a possible race condition between rescuer and pwq-release
to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.4.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Kamal
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>From afa532b689ab9e8a8de0137376c4003526173617 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lai Jiangshan <laijs at cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 11:04:16 -0400
Subject: workqueue: fix a possible race condition between rescuer and
pwq-release
commit 77668c8b559e4fe2acf2a0749c7c83cde49a5025 upstream.
There is a race condition between rescuer_thread() and
pwq_unbound_release_workfn().
Even after a pwq is scheduled for rescue, the associated work items
may be consumed by any worker. If all of them are consumed before the
rescuer gets to them and the pwq's base ref was put due to attribute
change, the pwq may be released while still being linked on
@wq->maydays list making the rescuer dereference already freed pwq
later.
Make send_mayday() pin the target pwq until the rescuer is done with
it.
tj: Updated comment and patch description.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs at cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
kernel/workqueue.c | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index df9d7e8..1b23f5b 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -1909,6 +1909,12 @@ static void send_mayday(struct work_struct *work)
/* mayday mayday mayday */
if (list_empty(&pwq->mayday_node)) {
+ /*
+ * If @pwq is for an unbound wq, its base ref may be put at
+ * any time due to an attribute change. Pin @pwq until the
+ * rescuer is done with it.
+ */
+ get_pwq(pwq);
list_add_tail(&pwq->mayday_node, &wq->maydays);
wake_up_process(wq->rescuer->task);
}
@@ -2443,6 +2449,12 @@ repeat:
process_scheduled_works(rescuer);
/*
+ * Put the reference grabbed by send_mayday(). @pool won't
+ * go away while we're holding its lock.
+ */
+ put_pwq(pwq);
+
+ /*
* Leave this pool. If keep_working() is %true, notify a
* regular worker; otherwise, we end up with 0 concurrency
* and stalling the execution.
--
1.9.1
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