[PATCH] init: Fix race between init and kthreadd -v3

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 16:19 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> I think you may be using a mutex as a completion in essence. Why not use 
> completions instead?

Totally forgot about those things.. Yes they fit perfectly.

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Subject: init: Fix race between init and kthreadd -v2

Ilya reported that on a very slow machine he could reliably reproduce a
race between forking init and kthreadd. We first fork init so that it 
obtains pid-1, however since the scheduler is already fully running at
this point it can preempt and run the init thread before we spawn and
set kthreadd_task.

The init thread can then attempt spawning kthreads without kthreadd
being present which results in an OOPS.

Reported-by: Ilya Loginov <isloginov@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 init/main.c |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index e2a2bf3..2280f63 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -420,18 +420,26 @@ static void __init setup_command_line(char *command_line)
  * gcc-3.4 accidentally inlines this function, so use noinline.
  */
 
+static __initdata DECLARE_COMPLETION(kthreadd_done);
+
 static noinline void __init_refok rest_init(void)
 	__releases(kernel_lock)
 {
 	int pid;
 
 	rcu_scheduler_starting();
+	/*
+	 * We need to spawn init first so that it obtains pid-1, however
+	 * the init task will end up wanting to create kthreads, which, if
+	 * we schedule it before we create kthreadd, will OOPS.
+	 */
 	kernel_thread(kernel_init, NULL, CLONE_FS | CLONE_SIGHAND);
 	numa_default_policy();
 	pid = kernel_thread(kthreadd, NULL, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES);
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	kthreadd_task = find_task_by_pid_ns(pid, &init_pid_ns);
 	rcu_read_unlock();
+	complete(&kthreadd_done);
 	unlock_kernel();
 
 	/*
@@ -847,6 +855,10 @@ static noinline int init_post(void)
 
 static int __init kernel_init(void * unused)
 {
+	/*
+	 * Wait until kthreadd is all set-up.
+	 */
+	wait_for_completion(&kthreadd_done);
 	lock_kernel();
 
 	/*

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