1. 10 6月, 2011 1 次提交
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      block: don't use non-syncing event blocking in disk_check_events() · a9dce2a3
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      This patch is part of fix for triggering of WARN_ON_ONCE() in
      disk_clear_events() reported in bug#34662.
      
        https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34662
      
      disk_clear_events() blocks events, schedules and flushes the event
      work.  It expects the work to have started execution on schedule and
      finished on return from flush.  WARN_ON_ONCE() triggers if the event
      work hasn't executed as expected.  This problem happens because
      __disk_block_events() fails to guarantee that the event work item is
      not in flight on return from the function in race-free manner.  The
      problem is two-fold and this patch addresses one of them.
      
      When __disk_block_events() is called with @sync == %false, it bumps
      event block count, calls cancel_delayed_work() and return.  This makes
      it impossible to guarantee that event polling is not in flight on
      return from syncing __disk_block_events() - if the first blocker was
      non-syncing, polling could still be in progress and later syncing ones
      would assume that the first blocker already canceled it.
      
      Making __disk_block_events() cancel_sync regardless of block count
      isn't feasible either as it may race with forced event checking in
      disk_clear_events().
      
      As disk_check_events() is the only user of non-syncing
      __disk_block_events(), updating it to directly cancel and schedule
      event work is the easiest way to solve the issue.
      
      Note that there's another bug in __disk_block_events() and this patch
      doesn't fix the issue completely.  Later patch will fix the other bug.
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Tested-by: NSitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
      Reported-by: NSitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
      Reported-by: NBorislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
      Reported-by: NMeelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
      Reported-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
      Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
      Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
      a9dce2a3
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