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SUNRPC: We must not use list_for_each_entry_safe() in rpc_wake_up()
authorTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:39:35 +0000 (13:39 -0400)
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:15:02 +0000 (14:15 -0400)
commit540a0f7584169651f485e8ab67461fcb06934e38
tree5a5dede243b80f1dca55f651ff2a78eaccff5c50
parente49a29bd0eacce9d4956c4daf777a330115b369d
SUNRPC: We must not use list_for_each_entry_safe() in rpc_wake_up()

The problem is that for the case of priority queues, we
have to assume that __rpc_remove_wait_queue_priority will move new
elements from the tk_wait.links lists into the queue->tasks[] list.
We therefore cannot use list_for_each_entry_safe() on queue->tasks[],
since that will skip these new tasks that __rpc_remove_wait_queue_priority
is adding.

Without this fix, rpc_wake_up and rpc_wake_up_status will both fail
to wake up all functions on priority wait queues, which can result
in some nasty hangs.

Reported-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
net/sunrpc/sched.c