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Sebastian Andrzej Siewior committed 5d99b32a009
posix-timers: Move rcu_head out of it union Timer deletion on PREEMPT_RT is prone to priority inversion and live locks. The hrtimer code has a synchronization mechanism for this. Posix CPU timers will grow one. But that mechanism cannot be invoked while holding the k_itimer lock because that can deadlock against the running timer callback. So the lock must be dropped which allows the timer to be freed. The timer free can be prevented by taking RCU readlock before dropping the lock, but because the rcu_head is part of the 'it' union a concurrent free will overwrite the hrtimer on which the task is trying to synchronize. Move the rcu_head out of the union to prevent this. [ tglx: Fixed up kernel-doc. Rewrote changelog ] Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190730223828.965541887@linutronix.de