[ 10/20] workqueue: exit rescuer_thread() as TASK_RUNNING

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Dec 06 2012 - 20:10:47 EST


3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@xxxxxxx>

commit 412d32e6c98527078779e5b515823b2810e40324 upstream.

A rescue thread exiting TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE can lead to a task scheduling
off, never to be seen again. In the case where this occurred, an exiting
thread hit reiserfs homebrew conditional resched while holding a mutex,
bringing the box to its knees.

PID: 18105 TASK: ffff8807fd412180 CPU: 5 COMMAND: "kdmflush"
#0 [ffff8808157e7670] schedule at ffffffff8143f489
#1 [ffff8808157e77b8] reiserfs_get_block at ffffffffa038ab2d [reiserfs]
#2 [ffff8808157e79a8] __block_write_begin at ffffffff8117fb14
#3 [ffff8808157e7a98] reiserfs_write_begin at ffffffffa0388695 [reiserfs]
#4 [ffff8808157e7ad8] generic_perform_write at ffffffff810ee9e2
#5 [ffff8808157e7b58] generic_file_buffered_write at ffffffff810eeb41
#6 [ffff8808157e7ba8] __generic_file_aio_write at ffffffff810f1a3a
#7 [ffff8808157e7c58] generic_file_aio_write at ffffffff810f1c88
#8 [ffff8808157e7cc8] do_sync_write at ffffffff8114f850
#9 [ffff8808157e7dd8] do_acct_process at ffffffff810a268f
[exception RIP: kernel_thread_helper]
RIP: ffffffff8144a5c0 RSP: ffff8808157e7f58 RFLAGS: 00000202
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8107af60 RDI: ffff8803ee491d18
RBP: 0000000000000000 R8: 0000000000000000 R9: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018

Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
kernel/workqueue.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -2040,8 +2040,10 @@ static int rescuer_thread(void *__wq)
repeat:
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);

- if (kthread_should_stop())
+ if (kthread_should_stop()) {
+ __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
return 0;
+ }

/*
* See whether any cpu is asking for help. Unbounded


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