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-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c25
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c b/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c
index fcbf75ac3dcb..b957da7fcb19 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c
@@ -261,17 +261,28 @@ struct rw_semaphore __sched *rwsem_down_read_failed(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(rwsem_down_read_failed);
+/*
+ * This function must be called with the sem->wait_lock held to prevent
+ * race conditions between checking the rwsem wait list and setting the
+ * sem->count accordingly.
+ */
static inline bool rwsem_try_write_lock(long count, struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
/*
- * Try acquiring the write lock. Check count first in order
- * to reduce unnecessary expensive cmpxchg() operations.
+ * Avoid trying to acquire write lock if count isn't RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS.
*/
- if (count == RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS &&
- cmpxchg_acquire(&sem->count, RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS,
- RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS) == RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS) {
- if (!list_is_singular(&sem->wait_list))
- rwsem_atomic_update(RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS, sem);
+ if (count != RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS)
+ return false;
+
+ /*
+ * Acquire the lock by trying to set it to ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS. If there
+ * are other tasks on the wait list, we need to add on WAITING_BIAS.
+ */
+ count = list_is_singular(&sem->wait_list) ?
+ RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS :
+ RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS + RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS;
+
+ if (cmpxchg_acquire(&sem->count, RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS, count) == RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS) {
rwsem_set_owner(sem);
return true;
}