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authorIdo Yariv <ido@wizery.com>2011-12-01 13:55:08 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-12-09 08:55:47 -0800
commita4b63ef678714a98dd8886fea14d5f76da671b6f (patch)
tree28974262730f3dfd86e89cd71803113b3b74221d /kernel/workqueue_sched.h
parentaedebb8ae9811dedc3e57757a1048cd8d902fa3a (diff)
genirq: Fix race condition when stopping the irq thread
commit 550acb19269d65f32e9ac4ddb26c2b2070e37f1c upstream. In irq_wait_for_interrupt(), the should_stop member is verified before setting the task's state to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE and calling schedule(). In case kthread_stop sets should_stop and wakes up the process after should_stop is checked by the irq thread but before the task's state is changed, the irq thread might never exit: kthread_stop irq_wait_for_interrupt ------------ ---------------------- ... ... while (!kthread_should_stop()) { kthread->should_stop = 1; wake_up_process(k); wait_for_completion(&kthread->exited); ... set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); ... schedule(); } Fix this by checking if the thread should stop after modifying the task's state. [ tglx: Simplified it a bit ] Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322740508-22640-1-git-send-email-ido@wizery.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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