Jens Axboe 9ac218642d io-wq: fix wakeup race when adding new work ...

commit 87df7fb922d18e96992aa5e824aa34b2065fef59 upstream.

When new work is added, io_wqe_enqueue() checks if we need to wake or
create a new worker. But that check is done outside the lock that
otherwise synchronizes us with a worker going to sleep, so we can end
up in the following situation:

CPU0				CPU1
lock
insert work
unlock
atomic_read(nr_running) != 0
				lock
				atomic_dec(nr_running)
no wakeup needed

Hold the wqe lock around the "need to wakeup" check. Then we can also get
rid of the temporary work_flags variable, as we know the work will remain
valid as long as we hold the lock.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

2021-09-18 13:40:06 +02:00

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