linux-kernel - [128/244] workqueue: lock cwq access in drain

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Date:	Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:01:32 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Thomas Tuttle <ttuttle@...omium.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: [128/244] workqueue: lock cwq access in drain_workqueue

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Thomas Tuttle <ttuttle@...omium.org>

commit fa2563e41c3d6d6e8af437643981ed28ae0cb56d upstream.

Take cwq->gcwq->lock to avoid racing between drain_workqueue checking to
make sure the workqueues are empty and cwq_dec_nr_in_flight decrementing
and then incrementing nr_active when it activates a delayed work.

We discovered this when a corner case in one of our drivers resulted in
us trying to destroy a workqueue in which the remaining work would
always requeue itself again in the same workqueue.  We would hit this
race condition and trip the BUG_ON on workqueue.c:3080.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Tuttle <ttuttle@...omium.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>

---
 kernel/workqueue.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -3026,8 +3026,13 @@ reflush:
 
 	for_each_cwq_cpu(cpu, wq) {
 		struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq = get_cwq(cpu, wq);
+		bool drained;
 
-		if (!cwq->nr_active && list_empty(&cwq->delayed_works))
+		spin_lock_irq(&cwq->gcwq->lock);
+		drained = !cwq->nr_active && list_empty(&cwq->delayed_works);
+		spin_unlock_irq(&cwq->gcwq->lock);
+
+		if (drained)
 			continue;
 
 		if (++flush_cnt == 10 ||


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