From d8bee0e3abef10e73a003fdc7ec04ba313334007 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 08:04:13 -0500 Subject: workqueue: fix hang involving racing cancel[_delayed]_work_sync()'s for PREEMPT_NONE commit 8603e1b30027f943cc9c1eef2b291d42c3347af1 upstream. cancel[_delayed]_work_sync() are implemented using __cancel_work_timer() which grabs the PENDING bit using try_to_grab_pending() and then flushes the work item with PENDING set to prevent the on-going execution of the work item from requeueing itself. try_to_grab_pending() can always grab PENDING bit without blocking except when someone else is doing the above flushing during cancelation. In that case, try_to_grab_pending() returns -ENOENT. In this case, __cancel_work_timer() currently invokes flush_work(). The assumption is that the completion of the work item is what the other canceling task would be waiting for too and thus waiting for the same condition and retrying should allow forward progress without excessive busy looping Unfortunately, this doesn't work if preemption is disabled or the latter task has real time priority. Let's say task A just got woken up from flush_work() by the completion of the target work item. If, before task A starts executing, task B gets scheduled and invokes __cancel_work_timer() on the same work item, its try_to_grab_pending() will return -ENOENT as the work item is still being canceled by task A and flush_work() will also immediately return false as the work item is no longer executing. This puts task B in a busy loop possibly preventing task A from executing and clearing the canceling state on the work item leading to a hang. task A task B worker executing work __cancel_work_timer() try_to_grab_pending() set work CANCELING flush_work() block for work completion completion, wakes up A __cancel_work_timer() while (forever) { try_to_grab_pending() -ENOENT as work is being canceled flush_work() false as work is no longer executing } This patch removes the possible hang by updating __cancel_work_timer() to explicitly wait for clearing of CANCELING rather than invoking flush_work() after try_to_grab_pending() fails with -ENOENT. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20150206171156.GA8942@axis.com v3: bit_waitqueue() can't be used for work items defined in vmalloc area. Switched to custom wake function which matches the target work item and exclusive wait and wakeup. v2: v1 used wake_up() on bit_waitqueue() which leads to NULL deref if the target bit waitqueue has wait_bit_queue's on it. Use DEFINE_WAIT_BIT() and __wake_up_bit() instead. Reported by Tomeu Vizoso. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Rabin Vincent Cc: Tomeu Vizoso Tested-by: Jesper Nilsson Tested-by: Rabin Vincent Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/workqueue.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/workqueue.h b/include/linux/workqueue.h index ff28cf578d01..120dd354849d 100644 --- a/include/linux/workqueue.h +++ b/include/linux/workqueue.h @@ -71,7 +71,8 @@ enum { /* data contains off-queue information when !WORK_STRUCT_PWQ */ WORK_OFFQ_FLAG_BASE = WORK_STRUCT_COLOR_SHIFT, - WORK_OFFQ_CANCELING = (1 << WORK_OFFQ_FLAG_BASE), + __WORK_OFFQ_CANCELING = WORK_OFFQ_FLAG_BASE, + WORK_OFFQ_CANCELING = (1 << __WORK_OFFQ_CANCELING), /* * When a work item is off queue, its high bits point to the last -- cgit v1.2.3