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Subject[2.6.22.2 review 64/84] destroy_workqueue() can livelock

From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>

Pointed out by Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>.

The bug was introduced in 2.6.22 by me.

cleanup_workqueue_thread() does flush_cpu_workqueue(cwq) in a loop until
->worklist becomes empty. This is live-lockable, a re-niced caller can get
CPU after wake_up() and insert a new barrier before the lower-priority
cwq->thread has a chance to clear ->current_work.

Change cleanup_workqueue_thread() to do flush_cpu_workqueue(cwq) only once.
We can rely on the fact that run_workqueue() won't return until it flushes
all works. So it is safe to call kthread_stop() after that, the "should
stop" request won't be noticed until run_workqueue() returns.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
kernel/workqueue.c | 11 +++++------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -739,18 +739,17 @@ static void cleanup_workqueue_thread(str
if (cwq->thread == NULL)
return;

+ flush_cpu_workqueue(cwq);
/*
- * If the caller is CPU_DEAD the single flush_cpu_workqueue()
- * is not enough, a concurrent flush_workqueue() can insert a
- * barrier after us.
+ * If the caller is CPU_DEAD and cwq->worklist was not empty,
+ * a concurrent flush_workqueue() can insert a barrier after us.
+ * However, in that case run_workqueue() won't return and check
+ * kthread_should_stop() until it flushes all work_struct's.
* When ->worklist becomes empty it is safe to exit because no
* more work_structs can be queued on this cwq: flush_workqueue
* checks list_empty(), and a "normal" queue_work() can't use
* a dead CPU.
*/
- while (flush_cpu_workqueue(cwq))
- ;
-
kthread_stop(cwq->thread);
cwq->thread = NULL;
}
--
-
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