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Merge branch 'workqueue/for-5.16-fixes' into workqueue/for-5.17
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for-5.16-fixes contains two subtle race conditions which were introduced by
scheduler side code cleanups. The branch didn't get pushed out, so merge
into for-5.17.
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htejun committed Jan 10, 2022
2 parents 84f91c6 + 45c753f commit 2a8ab0f
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22 changes: 21 additions & 1 deletion kernel/workqueue.c
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Expand Up @@ -864,8 +864,17 @@ void wq_worker_running(struct task_struct *task)

if (!worker->sleeping)
return;

/*
* If preempted by unbind_workers() between the WORKER_NOT_RUNNING check
* and the nr_running increment below, we may ruin the nr_running reset
* and leave with an unexpected pool->nr_running == 1 on the newly unbound
* pool. Protect against such race.
*/
preempt_disable();
if (!(worker->flags & WORKER_NOT_RUNNING))
atomic_inc(&worker->pool->nr_running);
preempt_enable();
worker->sleeping = 0;
}

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worker->sleeping = 1;
raw_spin_lock_irq(&pool->lock);

/*
* Recheck in case unbind_workers() preempted us. We don't
* want to decrement nr_running after the worker is unbound
* and nr_running has been reset.
*/
if (worker->flags & WORKER_NOT_RUNNING) {
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&pool->lock);
return;
}

/*
* The counterpart of the following dec_and_test, implied mb,
* worklist not empty test sequence is in insert_work().
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1526,7 +1545,8 @@ static void __queue_work(int cpu, struct workqueue_struct *wq,
* @work: work to queue
*
* We queue the work to a specific CPU, the caller must ensure it
* can't go away.
* can't go away. Callers that fail to ensure that the specified
* CPU cannot go away will execute on a randomly chosen CPU.
*
* Return: %false if @work was already on a queue, %true otherwise.
*/
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