Re: Deadlock in net/sunrpc/sched.c

From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Thu Mar 02 2006 - 12:29:49 EST


On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 12:45 +0100, Simon Derr wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Frederik Deweerdt wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 11:38:10AM +0100, Simon Derr wrote:
> > > This happened with 2.6.12 but it seems that the code has not changed and
> > > the issue is very probably still present in the current kernels.
> > Looks like it's fixed in 2.6.16-rc5, could you check agains the current
> > tree?
>
> No, the code is still the same.
>
> > Hmm, not sure this will even compile...
>
> oops....
>
> Index: linux-2.6.12.6/net/sunrpc/sched.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.12.6.orig/net/sunrpc/sched.c 2005-08-29 18:55:27.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.12.6/net/sunrpc/sched.c 2006-03-02 12:41:42.000000000 +0100
> @@ -400,16 +400,16 @@ __rpc_default_timer(struct rpc_task *tas
> */
> void rpc_wake_up_task(struct rpc_task *task)
> {
> + struct rpc_wait_queue *queue = task->u.tk_wait.rpc_waitq;
> + spin_lock_bh(&queue->lock);
> if (rpc_start_wakeup(task)) {
> if (RPC_IS_QUEUED(task)) {
> - struct rpc_wait_queue *queue = task->u.tk_wait.rpc_waitq;
>
> - spin_lock_bh(&queue->lock);
> __rpc_do_wake_up_task(task);
> - spin_unlock_bh(&queue->lock);
> }
> rpc_finish_wakeup(task);
> }
> + spin_unlock_bh(&queue->lock);
> }


Bzzzt... Race: How do you know that task->u.tk_wait.rpc_waitq contains a
valid pointer to a queue before you call rpc_start_wakeup()?

Cheers,
Trond

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