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| author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2013-08-12 18:14:00 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-01-09 12:24:23 -0800 |
| commit | 57f74b6ecebf59991677dd2da0f0433e8be6c945 (patch) | |
| tree | 4e3b332c34f41796e61bf7bcfb3e6bb06386e0b3 /include | |
| parent | a29ccdd1b5a61fad7d4883b3ef63da3a313f1e44 (diff) | |
sched: fix the theoretical signal_wake_up() vs schedule() race
commit e0acd0a68ec7dbf6b7a81a87a867ebd7ac9b76c4 upstream.
This is only theoretical, but after try_to_wake_up(p) was changed
to check p->state under p->pi_lock the code like
__set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
schedule();
can miss a signal. This is the special case of wait-for-condition,
it relies on try_to_wake_up/schedule interaction and thus it does
not need mb() between __set_current_state() and if(signal_pending).
However, this __set_current_state() can move into the critical
section protected by rq->lock, now that try_to_wake_up() takes
another lock we need to ensure that it can't be reordered with
"if (signal_pending(current))" check inside that section.
The patch is actually one-liner, it simply adds smp_wmb() before
spin_lock_irq(rq->lock). This is what try_to_wake_up() already
does by the same reason.
We turn this wmb() into the new helper, smp_mb__before_spinlock(),
for better documentation and to allow the architectures to change
the default implementation.
While at it, kill smp_mb__after_lock(), it has no callers.
Perhaps we can also add smp_mb__before/after_spinunlock() for
prepare_to_wait().
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/spinlock.h | 14 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/spinlock.h b/include/linux/spinlock.h index 7d537ced949..75f34949d9a 100644 --- a/include/linux/spinlock.h +++ b/include/linux/spinlock.h @@ -117,9 +117,17 @@ do { \ #endif /*arch_spin_is_contended*/ #endif -/* The lock does not imply full memory barrier. */ -#ifndef ARCH_HAS_SMP_MB_AFTER_LOCK -static inline void smp_mb__after_lock(void) { smp_mb(); } +/* + * Despite its name it doesn't necessarily has to be a full barrier. + * It should only guarantee that a STORE before the critical section + * can not be reordered with a LOAD inside this section. + * spin_lock() is the one-way barrier, this LOAD can not escape out + * of the region. So the default implementation simply ensures that + * a STORE can not move into the critical section, smp_wmb() should + * serialize it with another STORE done by spin_lock(). + */ +#ifndef smp_mb__before_spinlock +#define smp_mb__before_spinlock() smp_wmb() #endif /** |