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workqueue: UNBOUND -> REBIND morphing in rebind_workers() should be atomic
authorLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Sat, 1 Sep 2012 16:28:19 +0000 (00:28 +0800)
committerGuangyu Sun <guangyu.sun@oracle.com>
Mon, 8 Oct 2012 17:00:21 +0000 (10:00 -0700)
commit8675b310e904005044b37f76911f15c40d003aae
treec57db4b960ed48a12bd90d5c06f2c6ed728859a5
parent87be089d431261fa191723104214d17a183cacc5
workqueue: UNBOUND -> REBIND morphing in rebind_workers() should be atomic

commit 96e65306b81351b656835c15931d1d237b252f27 upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Guangyu Sun <guangyu.sun@oracle.com>
kernel/workqueue.c