The commit 91d2a812dfb9 ("locking/rwsem: Make handoff writer optimistically spin on owner") will allow a recently woken up waiting writer to spin on the owner. Unfortunately, if the owner happens to be RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN, the code will incorrectly spin on it leading to a kernel crash. This is fixed by passing the proper non-spinnable bits to rwsem_spin_on_owner() so that RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN will be treated as a non-spinnable target.
Fixes: 91d2a812dfb9 ("locking/rwsem: Make handoff writer optimistically spin on owner")
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Waiman Long longman@redhat.com --- kernel/locking/rwsem.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/locking/rwsem.c b/kernel/locking/rwsem.c index 44e68761f432..0d9b6be9ecc8 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/rwsem.c +++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem.c @@ -1226,8 +1226,8 @@ rwsem_down_write_slowpath(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int state) * In this case, we attempt to acquire the lock again * without sleeping. */ - if ((wstate == WRITER_HANDOFF) && - (rwsem_spin_on_owner(sem, 0) == OWNER_NULL)) + if (wstate == WRITER_HANDOFF && + rwsem_spin_on_owner(sem, RWSEM_NONSPINNABLE) == OWNER_NULL) goto trylock_again;
/* Block until there are no active lockers. */