From 29671f22a8b6522db3b126a3fdfb208759ce46e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amerigo Wang Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:00:21 -0800 Subject: rwsem: fix rwsem_is_locked() bugs 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 Cc: Ben Woodard Cc: David Howells Signed-off-by: WANG Cong Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/rwsem-spinlock.h | 6 +----- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/rwsem-spinlock.h b/include/linux/rwsem-spinlock.h index 6c3c0f6c261..bdfcc252797 100644 --- a/include/linux/rwsem-spinlock.h +++ b/include/linux/rwsem-spinlock.h @@ -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 */ -- cgit v1.2.3