xen: fix race in xen_qlock_wait()
authorJuergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Mon, 1 Oct 2018 05:57:42 +0000 (07:57 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 13 Nov 2018 19:16:54 +0000 (11:16 -0800)
commit95f5d10f99b4968007373501f2b47eb923abf861
tree970c37a33dc3895a8dfe16f833b3956e13805b71
parentc29b0cc6378d29b04602772c7bd3fa9a7cacc73a
xen: fix race in xen_qlock_wait()

commit 2ac2a7d4d9ff4e01e36f9c3d116582f6f655ab47 upstream.

In the following situation a vcpu waiting for a lock might not be
woken up from xen_poll_irq():

CPU 1:                CPU 2:                      CPU 3:
takes a spinlock
                      tries to get lock
                      -> xen_qlock_wait()
frees the lock
-> xen_qlock_kick(cpu2)
                        -> xen_clear_irq_pending()

takes lock again
                                                  tries to get lock
                                                  -> *lock = _Q_SLOW_VAL
                        -> *lock == _Q_SLOW_VAL ?
                        -> xen_poll_irq()
frees the lock
-> xen_qlock_kick(cpu3)

And cpu 2 will sleep forever.

This can be avoided easily by modifying xen_qlock_wait() to call
xen_poll_irq() only if the related irq was not pending and to call
xen_clear_irq_pending() only if it was pending.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Waiman.Long@hp.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c