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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)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 2 Oct 2012 16:47:40 +0000 (09:47 -0700)
commitbc713e264ea9badd399aa34f208154a64e4e1b3b
tree8117073e57c8c6abb8a26a6ee66b7a098ecd289f
parente2471ec3e86a473ec354b4707e8e2d2367d1af00
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>
kernel/workqueue.c