[IA64] fix possible XPC deadlock when disconnecting

This patch eliminates a potential deadlock that is possible when XPC
disconnects a channel to a partition that has gone down. This deadlock will
occur if at least one of the kthreads created by XPC for the purpose of making
callouts to the channel's registerer is detained in the registerer and will
not be returning back to XPC until some registerer request occurs on the now
downed partition. The potential for a deadlock is removed by ensuring that
there always is a kthread available to make the channel disconnecting callout
to the registerer.

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

1 files changed, 43 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c b/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c
index fa96dfc0e1aa..7a387d237363 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c
+++ b/arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpc_main.c
@@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ xpc_activate_kthreads(struct xpc_channel *ch, int needed)
         dev_dbg(xpc_chan, "create %d new kthreads, partid=%d, channel=%d\n",
                 needed, ch->partid, ch->number);
 
-        xpc_create_kthreads(ch, needed);
+        xpc_create_kthreads(ch, needed, 0);
 }
 
 
@@ -775,26 +775,28 @@ xpc_daemonize_kthread(void *args)
                 xpc_kthread_waitmsgs(part, ch);
         }
 
-        if (atomic_dec_return(&ch->kthreads_assigned) == 0) {
-                spin_lock_irqsave(&ch->lock, irq_flags);
-                if ((ch->flags & XPC_C_CONNECTEDCALLOUT_MADE) &&
-                                !(ch->flags & XPC_C_DISCONNECTINGCALLOUT)) {
-                        ch->flags |= XPC_C_DISCONNECTINGCALLOUT;
-                        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ch->lock, irq_flags);
+        /* let registerer know that connection is disconnecting */
 
-                        xpc_disconnect_callout(ch, xpcDisconnecting);
-
-                        spin_lock_irqsave(&ch->lock, irq_flags);
-                        ch->flags |= XPC_C_DISCONNECTINGCALLOUT_MADE;
-                }
+        spin_lock_irqsave(&ch->lock, irq_flags);
+        if ((ch->flags & XPC_C_CONNECTEDCALLOUT_MADE) &&
+                        !(ch->flags & XPC_C_DISCONNECTINGCALLOUT)) {
+                ch->flags |= XPC_C_DISCONNECTINGCALLOUT;
                 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ch->lock, irq_flags);
+
+                xpc_disconnect_callout(ch, xpcDisconnecting);
+
+                spin_lock_irqsave(&ch->lock, irq_flags);
+                ch->flags |= XPC_C_DISCONNECTINGCALLOUT_MADE;
+        }
+        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ch->lock, irq_flags);
+
+        if (atomic_dec_return(&ch->kthreads_assigned) == 0) {
                 if (atomic_dec_return(&part->nchannels_engaged) == 0) {
                         xpc_mark_partition_disengaged(part);
                         xpc_IPI_send_disengage(part);
                 }
         }
 
-
         xpc_msgqueue_deref(ch);
 
         dev_dbg(xpc_chan, "kthread exiting, partid=%d, channel=%d\n",
@@ -818,7 +820,8 @@ xpc_daemonize_kthread(void *args)
  * partition.
  */
 void
-xpc_create_kthreads(struct xpc_channel *ch, int needed)
+xpc_create_kthreads(struct xpc_channel *ch, int needed,
+                        int ignore_disconnecting)
 {
         unsigned long irq_flags;
         pid_t pid;
@@ -833,16 +836,38 @@ xpc_create_kthreads(struct xpc_channel *ch, int needed)
                  * kthread. That kthread is responsible for doing the
                  * counterpart to the following before it exits.
                  */
+                if (ignore_disconnecting) {
+                        if (!atomic_inc_not_zero(&ch->kthreads_assigned)) {
+                                /* kthreads assigned had gone to zero */
+                                BUG_ON(!(ch->flags &
+                                        XPC_C_DISCONNECTINGCALLOUT_MADE));
+                                break;
+                        }
+
+                } else if (ch->flags & XPC_C_DISCONNECTING) {
+                        break;
+
+                } else if (atomic_inc_return(&ch->kthreads_assigned) == 1) {
+                        if (atomic_inc_return(&part->nchannels_engaged) == 1)
+                                xpc_mark_partition_engaged(part);
+                }
                 (void) xpc_part_ref(part);
                 xpc_msgqueue_ref(ch);
-                if (atomic_inc_return(&ch->kthreads_assigned) == 1 &&
-                    atomic_inc_return(&part->nchannels_engaged) == 1) {
-                        xpc_mark_partition_engaged(part);
-                }
 
                 pid = kernel_thread(xpc_daemonize_kthread, (void *) args, 0);
                 if (pid < 0) {
                         /* the fork failed */
+
+                        /*
+                         * NOTE: if (ignore_disconnecting &&
+                         * !(ch->flags & XPC_C_DISCONNECTINGCALLOUT)) is true,
+                         * then we'll deadlock if all other kthreads assigned
+                         * to this channel are blocked in the channel's
+                         * registerer, because the only thing that will unblock
+                         * them is the xpcDisconnecting callout that this
+                         * failed kernel_thread would have made.
+                         */
+
                         if (atomic_dec_return(&ch->kthreads_assigned) == 0 &&
                             atomic_dec_return(&part->nchannels_engaged) == 0) {
                                 xpc_mark_partition_disengaged(part);
@@ -857,9 +882,6 @@ xpc_create_kthreads(struct xpc_channel *ch, int needed)
                                  * Flag this as an error only if we have an
                                  * insufficient #of kthreads for the channel
                                  * to function.
-                                 *
-                                 * No xpc_msgqueue_ref() is needed here since
-                                 * the channel mgr is doing this.
                                  */
                                 spin_lock_irqsave(&ch->lock, irq_flags);
                                 XPC_DISCONNECT_CHANNEL(ch, xpcLackOfResources,