• Christophe Saout's avatar
    Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix SUNRPC wakeup/execute race condition · cc4dc59e
    Christophe Saout authored
    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: default avatarChristophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
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