From 6dc080eeb2ba01973bfff0d79844d7a59e12542e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Prateek Sood Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 20:40:56 +0530 Subject: sched/wait: Fix rcuwait_wake_up() ordering For some peculiar reason rcuwait_wake_up() has the right barrier in the comment, but not in the code. This mistake has been observed to cause a deadlock in the following situation: P1 P2 percpu_up_read() percpu_down_write() rcu_sync_is_idle() // false rcu_sync_enter() ... __percpu_up_read() [S] ,- __this_cpu_dec(*sem->read_count) | smp_rmb(); [L] | task = rcu_dereference(w->task) // NULL | | [S] w->task = current | smp_mb(); | [L] readers_active_check() // fail `-> Where the smp_rmb() (obviously) fails to constrain the store. [ peterz: Added changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Prateek Sood Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Andrea Parri Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Fixes: 8f95c90ceb54 ("sched/wait, RCU: Introduce rcuwait machinery") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1543590656-7157-1-git-send-email-prsood@codeaurora.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/exit.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c index 284f2fe9a293..3fb7be001964 100644 --- a/kernel/exit.c +++ b/kernel/exit.c @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ void rcuwait_wake_up(struct rcuwait *w) * MB (A) MB (B) * [L] cond [L] tsk */ - smp_rmb(); /* (B) */ + smp_mb(); /* (B) */ /* * Avoid using task_rcu_dereference() magic as long as we are careful, -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b