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authorMike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>2012-11-28 07:17:18 +0100
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2012-12-01 15:56:42 -0800
commit412d32e6c98527078779e5b515823b2810e40324 (patch)
tree0221e047afeb05d753d29821a457eef9dbe917d7
parentb3c3a9cf2a28ee4a8d0b62e2e58c61e9ca9bb47b (diff)
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workqueue: exit rescuer_thread() as TASK_RUNNING
A rescue thread exiting TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE can lead to a task scheduling off, never to be seen again. In the case where this occurred, an exiting thread hit reiserfs homebrew conditional resched while holding a mutex, bringing the box to its knees. PID: 18105 TASK: ffff8807fd412180 CPU: 5 COMMAND: "kdmflush" #0 [ffff8808157e7670] schedule at ffffffff8143f489 #1 [ffff8808157e77b8] reiserfs_get_block at ffffffffa038ab2d [reiserfs] #2 [ffff8808157e79a8] __block_write_begin at ffffffff8117fb14 #3 [ffff8808157e7a98] reiserfs_write_begin at ffffffffa0388695 [reiserfs] #4 [ffff8808157e7ad8] generic_perform_write at ffffffff810ee9e2 #5 [ffff8808157e7b58] generic_file_buffered_write at ffffffff810eeb41 #6 [ffff8808157e7ba8] __generic_file_aio_write at ffffffff810f1a3a #7 [ffff8808157e7c58] generic_file_aio_write at ffffffff810f1c88 #8 [ffff8808157e7cc8] do_sync_write at ffffffff8114f850 #9 [ffff8808157e7dd8] do_acct_process at ffffffff810a268f [exception RIP: kernel_thread_helper] RIP: ffffffff8144a5c0 RSP: ffff8808157e7f58 RFLAGS: 00000202 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8107af60 RDI: ffff8803ee491d18 RBP: 0000000000000000 R8: 0000000000000000 R9: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018 Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
-rw-r--r--kernel/workqueue.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 042d221d33cc..ac25db111f48 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -2407,8 +2407,10 @@ static int rescuer_thread(void *__wq)
repeat:
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
- if (kthread_should_stop())
+ if (kthread_should_stop()) {
+ __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
return 0;
+ }
/*
* See whether any cpu is asking for help. Unbounded