epoll: remove unnecessary xchg

xchg in ep_unregister_pollwait() is unnecessary because it is protected by
either epmutex or ep->mtx (the same protection as ep_remove()).

If xchg was necessary, it would be insufficient to protect against
problems: if multiple concurrent calls to ep_unregister_pollwait() were
possible then a second caller that returns without doing anything because
nwait == 0 could return before the waitqueues are removed by the first
caller, which looks like it could lead to problematic races with
ep_poll_callback().

So remove xchg and add comments about the locking.

Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index c806a0c4383c..64c55037c13b 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -394,27 +394,21 @@ static void ep_poll_safewake(wait_queue_head_t *wq)
 }
 
 /*
- * This function unregister poll callbacks from the associated file descriptor.
- * Since this must be called without holding "ep->lock" the atomic exchange trick
- * will protect us from multiple unregister.
+ * This function unregisters poll callbacks from the associated file
+ * descriptor.  Must be called with "mtx" held (or "epmutex" if called from
+ * ep_free).
  */
 static void ep_unregister_pollwait(struct eventpoll *ep, struct epitem *epi)
 {
-        int nwait;
         struct list_head *lsthead = &epi->pwqlist;
         struct eppoll_entry *pwq;
 
-        /* This is called without locks, so we need the atomic exchange */
-        nwait = xchg(&epi->nwait, 0);
-
-        if (nwait) {
-                while (!list_empty(lsthead)) {
-                        pwq = list_first_entry(lsthead, struct eppoll_entry, llink);
+        while (!list_empty(lsthead)) {
+                pwq = list_first_entry(lsthead, struct eppoll_entry, llink);
 
-                        list_del_init(&pwq->llink);
-                        remove_wait_queue(pwq->whead, &pwq->wait);
-                        kmem_cache_free(pwq_cache, pwq);
-                }
+                list_del(&pwq->llink);
+                remove_wait_queue(pwq->whead, &pwq->wait);
+                kmem_cache_free(pwq_cache, pwq);
         }
 }