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authorLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>2012-09-01 16:28:19 (GMT)
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2012-09-05 00:04:45 (GMT)
commit96e65306b81351b656835c15931d1d237b252f27 (patch)
treeaf06187bebae44b48ca8e68a639a4ddc6b0a3509 /kernel/extable.c
parent0d7614f09c1ebdbaa1599a5aba7593f147bf96ee (diff)
downloadlinux-96e65306b81351b656835c15931d1d237b252f27.tar.xz
workqueue: UNBOUND -> REBIND morphing in rebind_workers() should be atomic
The compiler may compile the following code into TWO write/modify instructions. worker->flags &= ~WORKER_UNBOUND; worker->flags |= WORKER_REBIND; so the other CPU may temporarily see worker->flags which doesn't have either WORKER_UNBOUND or WORKER_REBIND set and perform local wakeup prematurely. Fix it by using single explicit assignment via ACCESS_ONCE(). Because idle workers have another WORKER_NOT_RUNNING flag, this bug doesn't exist for them; however, update it to use the same pattern for consistency. tj: Applied the change to idle workers too and updated comments and patch description a bit. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
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