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rwsem: fix rwsem_is_locked() bugs
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rwsem_is_locked() tests ->activity without locks, so we should always keep
->activity consistent.  However, the code in __rwsem_do_wake() breaks this
rule, it updates ->activity after _all_ readers waken up, this may give
some reader a wrong ->activity value, thus cause rwsem_is_locked() behaves
wrong.

Quote from Andrew:

"
- we have one or more processes sleeping in down_read(), waiting for access.

- we wake one or more processes up without altering ->activity

- they start to run and they do rwsem_is_locked().  This incorrectly
  returns "false", because the waker process is still crunching away in
  __rwsem_do_wake().

- the waker now alters ->activity, but it was too late.
"

So we need get a spinlock to protect this.  And rwsem_is_locked() should
not block, thus we use spin_trylock_irqsave().

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: simplify code]
Reported-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Cc: Ben Woodard <bwoodard@llnl.gov>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Amerigo Wang authored and Linus Torvalds committed Dec 15, 2009
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6 changes: 1 addition & 5 deletions include/linux/rwsem-spinlock.h
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Expand Up @@ -68,11 +68,7 @@ extern int __down_write_trylock(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
extern void __up_read(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
extern void __up_write(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
extern void __downgrade_write(struct rw_semaphore *sem);

static inline int rwsem_is_locked(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
return (sem->activity != 0);
}
extern int rwsem_is_locked(struct rw_semaphore *sem);

#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* _LINUX_RWSEM_SPINLOCK_H */
13 changes: 13 additions & 0 deletions lib/rwsem-spinlock.c
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Expand Up @@ -17,6 +17,19 @@ struct rwsem_waiter {
#define RWSEM_WAITING_FOR_WRITE 0x00000002
};

int rwsem_is_locked(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
int ret = 1;
unsigned long flags;

if (spin_trylock_irqsave(&sem->wait_lock, flags)) {
ret = (sem->activity != 0);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sem->wait_lock, flags);
}
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(rwsem_is_locked);

/*
* initialise the semaphore
*/
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