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| author | Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> | 2012-01-29 12:17:33 -0600 |
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| committer | Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> | 2012-02-01 16:52:49 +0800 |
| commit | 2673b4cf5d59c3ee5e0c12f6d734d38770324dc4 (patch) | |
| tree | abef3ab4517f06b629f5dc4c516c135165cf7d81 | |
| parent | 62aa2b537c6f5957afd98e29f96897419ed5ebab (diff) | |
backing-dev: fix wakeup timer races with bdi_unregister()
While 7a401a972df8e18 ("backing-dev: ensure wakeup_timer is deleted")
addressed the problem of the bdi being freed with a queued wakeup
timer, there are other races that could happen if the wakeup timer
expires after/during bdi_unregister(), before bdi_destroy() is called.
wakeup_timer_fn() could attempt to wakeup a task which has already has
been freed, or could access a NULL bdi->dev via the wake_forker_thread
tracepoint.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reported-by: Chanho Min <chanho.min@lge.com>
Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/backing-dev.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/mm/backing-dev.c b/mm/backing-dev.c index 7ba8feae11b8..dd8e2aafb07e 100644 --- a/mm/backing-dev.c +++ b/mm/backing-dev.c @@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ static void wakeup_timer_fn(unsigned long data) if (bdi->wb.task) { trace_writeback_wake_thread(bdi); wake_up_process(bdi->wb.task); - } else { + } else if (bdi->dev) { /* * When bdi tasks are inactive for long time, they are killed. * In this case we have to wake-up the forker thread which @@ -584,6 +584,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_register_dev); */ static void bdi_wb_shutdown(struct backing_dev_info *bdi) { + struct task_struct *task; + if (!bdi_cap_writeback_dirty(bdi)) return; @@ -602,8 +604,13 @@ static void bdi_wb_shutdown(struct backing_dev_info *bdi) * Finally, kill the kernel thread. We don't need to be RCU * safe anymore, since the bdi is gone from visibility. */ - if (bdi->wb.task) - kthread_stop(bdi->wb.task); + spin_lock_bh(&bdi->wb_lock); + task = bdi->wb.task; + bdi->wb.task = NULL; + spin_unlock_bh(&bdi->wb_lock); + + if (task) + kthread_stop(task); } /* @@ -623,7 +630,9 @@ static void bdi_prune_sb(struct backing_dev_info *bdi) void bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi) { - if (bdi->dev) { + struct device *dev = bdi->dev; + + if (dev) { bdi_set_min_ratio(bdi, 0); trace_writeback_bdi_unregister(bdi); bdi_prune_sb(bdi); @@ -632,8 +641,12 @@ void bdi_unregister(struct backing_dev_info *bdi) if (!bdi_cap_flush_forker(bdi)) bdi_wb_shutdown(bdi); bdi_debug_unregister(bdi); - device_unregister(bdi->dev); + + spin_lock_bh(&bdi->wb_lock); bdi->dev = NULL; + spin_unlock_bh(&bdi->wb_lock); + + device_unregister(dev); } } EXPORT_SYMBOL(bdi_unregister); |