From bf294b41cefcb22fc3139e0f42c5b3f06728bd5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trond Myklebust Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:05:41 -0800 Subject: SUNRPC: Close a race in __rpc_wait_for_completion_task() Although they run as rpciod background tasks, under normal operation (i.e. no SIGKILL), functions like nfs_sillyrename(), nfs4_proc_unlck() and nfs4_do_close() want to be fully synchronous. This means that when we exit, we want all references to the rpc_task to be gone, and we want any dentry references etc. held by that task to be released. For this reason these functions call __rpc_wait_for_completion_task(), followed by rpc_put_task() in the expectation that the latter will be releasing the last reference to the rpc_task, and thus ensuring that the callback_ops->rpc_release() has been called synchronously. This patch fixes a race which exists due to the fact that rpciod calls rpc_complete_task() (in order to wake up the callers of __rpc_wait_for_completion_task()) and then subsequently calls rpc_put_task() without ensuring that these two steps are done atomically. In order to avoid adding new spin locks, the patch uses the existing waitqueue spin lock to order the rpc_task reference count releases between the waiting process and rpciod. The common case where nobody is waiting for completion is optimised for by checking if the RPC_TASK_ASYNC flag is cleared and/or if the rpc_task reference count is 1: in those cases we drop trying to grab the spin lock, and immediately free up the rpc_task. Those few processes that need to put the rpc_task from inside an asynchronous context and that do not care about ordering are given a new helper: rpc_put_task_async(). Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust --- kernel/sched.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'kernel/sched.c') diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index 18d38e4ec7ba..42eab5a8437d 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -4213,6 +4213,7 @@ void __wake_up_locked_key(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode, void *key) { __wake_up_common(q, mode, 1, 0, key); } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__wake_up_locked_key); /** * __wake_up_sync_key - wake up threads blocked on a waitqueue. -- cgit v1.2.2