[PATCH v2] RPC: killing RPC tasks races fixed

From: Stanislav Kinsbursky
Date: Thu Mar 17 2011 - 11:54:24 EST


RPC task RPC_TASK_QUEUED bit is set must be checked before trying to wake up
task rpc_killall_tasks() because task->tk_waitqueue can not be set (equal to
NULL).
Also, as Trond Myklebust mentioned, such approach (instead of checking
tk_waitqueue to NULL) allows us to "optimise away the call to
rpc_wake_up_queued_task() altogether for those
tasks that aren't queued".

Here is an example of dereferencing of tk_waitqueue equal to NULL:

CPU 0 CPU 1 CPU 2
-------------------- --------------------- --------------------------
nfs4_run_open_task
rpc_run_task
rpc_execute
rpc_set_active
rpc_make_runnable
(waiting)
rpc_async_schedule
nfs4_open_prepare
nfs_wait_on_sequence
nfs_umount_begin
rpc_killall_tasks
rpc_wake_up_task
rpc_wake_up_queued_task
spin_lock(tk_waitqueue == NULL)
BUG()
rpc_sleep_on
spin_lock(&q->lock)
__rpc_sleep_on
task->tk_waitqueue = q

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
net/sunrpc/clnt.c | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
index 57d344c..3444757 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
@@ -436,7 +436,9 @@ void rpc_killall_tasks(struct rpc_clnt *clnt)
if (!(rovr->tk_flags & RPC_TASK_KILLED)) {
rovr->tk_flags |= RPC_TASK_KILLED;
rpc_exit(rovr, -EIO);
- rpc_wake_up_queued_task(rovr->tk_waitqueue, rovr);
+ if (RPC_IS_QUEUED(rovr))
+ rpc_wake_up_queued_task(rovr->tk_waitqueue,
+ rovr);
}
}
spin_unlock(&clnt->cl_lock);

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