rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle try two

Commit 545fbd0775ba ("rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle")
tried to fix a problem that a process could be sleeping in rq_qos_wait()
without anyone to wake it up. However the fix is not complete and the
following can still happen:

CPU1 (waiter1)		CPU2 (waiter2)		CPU3 (waker)
rq_qos_wait()		rq_qos_wait()
  acquire_inflight_cb() -> fails
			  acquire_inflight_cb() -> fails

						completes IOs, inflight
						  decreased
  prepare_to_wait_exclusive()
			  prepare_to_wait_exclusive()
  has_sleeper = !wq_has_single_sleeper() -> true as there are two sleepers
			  has_sleeper = !wq_has_single_sleeper() -> true
  io_schedule()		  io_schedule()

Deadlock as now there's nobody to wakeup the two waiters. The logic
automatically blocking when there are already sleepers is really subtle
and the only way to make it work reliably is that we check whether there
are some waiters in the queue when adding ourselves there. That way, we
are guaranteed that at least the first process to enter the wait queue
will recheck the waiting condition before going to sleep and thus
guarantee forward progress.

Fixes: 545fbd0775ba ("rq-qos: fix missed wake-ups in rq_qos_throttle")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210607112613.25344-1-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/wait.c b/kernel/sched/wait.c
index 183cc6ae68a6..76577d1642a5 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/wait.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/wait.c
@@ -264,17 +264,22 @@ prepare_to_wait(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, struct wait_queue_entry *wq_ent
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(prepare_to_wait);
 
-void
+/* Returns true if we are the first waiter in the queue, false otherwise. */
+bool
 prepare_to_wait_exclusive(struct wait_queue_head *wq_head, struct wait_queue_entry *wq_entry, int state)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
+	bool was_empty = false;
 
 	wq_entry->flags |= WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE;
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&wq_head->lock, flags);
-	if (list_empty(&wq_entry->entry))
+	if (list_empty(&wq_entry->entry)) {
+		was_empty = list_empty(&wq_head->head);
 		__add_wait_queue_entry_tail(wq_head, wq_entry);
+	}
 	set_current_state(state);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&wq_head->lock, flags);
+	return was_empty;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(prepare_to_wait_exclusive);