From: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] locking/rwsem: Fix kernel crash when spinning on RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:03:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200114190303.5778-1-longman@redhat.com> (raw)
The commit 91d2a812dfb9 ("locking/rwsem: Make handoff writer
optimistically spin on owner") will allow a recently woken up waiting
writer to spin on the owner. Unfortunately, if the owner happens to be
RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN, the code will incorrectly spin on it leading to a
kernel crash. This is fixed by passing the proper non-spinnable bits
to rwsem_spin_on_owner() so that RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN will be treated
as a non-spinnable target.
Fixes: 91d2a812dfb9 ("locking/rwsem: Make handoff writer optimistically spin on owner")
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
---
kernel/locking/rwsem.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/locking/rwsem.c b/kernel/locking/rwsem.c
index 44e68761f432..1dd3d53f43c3 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rwsem.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem.c
@@ -1227,7 +1227,7 @@ rwsem_down_write_slowpath(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int state)
* without sleeping.
*/
if ((wstate == WRITER_HANDOFF) &&
- (rwsem_spin_on_owner(sem, 0) == OWNER_NULL))
+ rwsem_spin_on_owner(sem, RWSEM_NONSPINNABLE) == OWNER_NULL)
goto trylock_again;
/* Block until there are no active lockers. */
--
2.18.1
next reply other threads:[~2020-01-14 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-14 19:03 Waiman Long [this message]
2020-01-15 6:50 ` [PATCH] locking/rwsem: Fix kernel crash when spinning on RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-15 14:27 ` Waiman Long
2020-01-15 15:16 ` David Laight
2020-01-15 15:47 ` Waiman Long
2020-01-15 16:01 ` David Laight
2020-01-15 15:28 ` Waiman Long
2020-01-15 15:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
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