linux-kernel - [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 5/5] SUNRPC: Fix a race to wake a sync task

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Message-ID: <20240728155103.2050728-5-sashal@kernel.org>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 11:51:00 -0400
From: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@...hat.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
	Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@...app.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>,
	trondmy@...nel.org,
	anna@...nel.org,
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	davem@...emloft.net,
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	pabeni@...hat.com,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 5/5] SUNRPC: Fix a race to wake a sync task

From: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@...hat.com>

[ Upstream commit ed0172af5d6fc07d1b40ca82f5ca3979300369f7 ]

We've observed NFS clients with sync tasks sleeping in __rpc_execute
waiting on RPC_TASK_QUEUED that have not responded to a wake-up from
rpc_make_runnable().  I suspect this problem usually goes unnoticed,
because on a busy client the task will eventually be re-awoken by another
task completion or xprt event.  However, if the state manager is draining
the slot table, a sync task missing a wake-up can result in a hung client.

We've been able to prove that the waker in rpc_make_runnable() successfully
calls wake_up_bit() (ie- there's no race to tk_runstate), but the
wake_up_bit() call fails to wake the waiter.  I suspect the waker is
missing the load of the bit's wait_queue_head, so waitqueue_active() is
false.  There are some very helpful comments about this problem above
wake_up_bit(), prepare_to_wait(), and waitqueue_active().

Fix this by inserting smp_mb__after_atomic() before the wake_up_bit(),
which pairs with prepare_to_wait() calling set_current_state().

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@...app.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 net/sunrpc/sched.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/sched.c b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
index 9af919364a001..92d88aa62085b 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/sched.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
@@ -349,8 +349,10 @@ static void rpc_make_runnable(struct workqueue_struct *wq,
 	if (RPC_IS_ASYNC(task)) {
 		INIT_WORK(&task->u.tk_work, rpc_async_schedule);
 		queue_work(wq, &task->u.tk_work);
-	} else
+	} else {
+		smp_mb__after_atomic();
 		wake_up_bit(&task->tk_runstate, RPC_TASK_QUEUED);
+	}
 }

 /*
-- 
2.43.0