linux/net/sunrpc
Christophe Saout cc4dc59e55 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix SUNRPC wakeup/execute race condition
The sunrpc scheduler contains a race condition that can let an RPC
task end up being neither running nor on any wait queue. The race takes
place between rpc_make_runnable (called from rpc_wake_up_task) and
__rpc_execute under the following condition:

First __rpc_execute calls tk_action which puts the task on some wait
queue. The task is dequeued by another process before __rpc_execute
continues its execution. While executing rpc_make_runnable exactly after
setting the task `running' bit and before clearing the `queued' bit
__rpc_execute picks up execution, clears `running' and subsequently
both functions fall through, both under the false assumption somebody
else took the job.

Swapping rpc_test_and_set_running with rpc_clear_queued in
rpc_make_runnable fixes that hole. This introduces another possible
race condition that can be handled by checking for `queued' after
setting the `running' bit.

Bug noticed on a 4-way x86_64 system under XEN with an NFSv4 server
on the same physical machine, apparently one of the few ways to hit
this race condition at all.

Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
2006-12-06 10:46:24 -05:00
..
auth_gss [SUNRPC]: Use k{mem,str}dup where applicable 2006-12-02 21:30:20 -08:00
auth_null.c
auth_unix.c
auth.c
cache.c
clnt.c [SUNRPC]: Use k{mem,str}dup where applicable 2006-12-02 21:30:20 -08:00
Makefile
pmap_clnt.c
rpc_pipe.c
sched.c Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix SUNRPC wakeup/execute race condition 2006-12-06 10:46:24 -05:00
socklib.c [NET]: Annotate callers of the reset of checksum.h stuff. 2006-12-02 21:23:34 -08:00
stats.c
sunrpc_syms.c
svc.c
svcauth_unix.c [SUNRPC]: annotate hash_ip() 2006-12-02 21:21:16 -08:00
svcauth.c
svcsock.c
sysctl.c
timer.c
xdr.c
xprt.c
xprtsock.c