[PATCH 05/15] alarmtimer: Prevent live lock in alarm_cancel()

From: Tom Zanussi
Date: Thu Aug 02 2018 - 18:26:33 EST


From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

If alarm_try_to_cancel() requires a retry, then depending on the
priority setting the retry loop might prevent timer callback completion
on RT. Prevent that by waiting for completion on RT, no change for a
non RT kernel.

Cc: stable-rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
(cherry picked from commit 51e376c469bf05f32cb1ceb9e39d31bb92f1f6c8)
Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
index 119847b93ba6..5a5e05fc92a3 100644
--- a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ int alarm_cancel(struct alarm *alarm)
int ret = alarm_try_to_cancel(alarm);
if (ret >= 0)
return ret;
- cpu_relax();
+ hrtimer_wait_for_timer(&alarm->timer);
}
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alarm_cancel);
--
2.14.1