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Waiman Long committed a9e9bcb45b1
locking/rwsem: Prevent decrement of reader count before increment During my rwsem testing, it was found that after a down_read(), the reader count may occasionally become 0 or even negative. Consequently, a writer may steal the lock at that time and execute with the reader in parallel thus breaking the mutual exclusion guarantee of the write lock. In other words, both readers and writer can become rwsem owners simultaneously. The current reader wakeup code does it in one pass to clear waiter->task and put them into wake_q before fully incrementing the reader count. Once waiter->task is cleared, the corresponding reader may see it, finish the critical section and do unlock to decrement the count before the count is incremented. This is not a problem if there is only one reader to wake up as the count has been pre-incremented by 1. It is a problem if there are more than one readers to be woken up and writer can steal the lock. The wakeup was actually done in 2 passes before the following v4.9 commit: 70800c3c0cc5 ("locking/rwsem: Scan the wait_list for readers only once") To fix this problem, the wakeup is now done in two passes again. In the first pass, we collect the readers and count them. The reader count is then fully incremented. In the second pass, the waiter->task is then cleared and they are put into wake_q to be woken up later. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com> Fixes: 70800c3c0cc5 ("locking/rwsem: Scan the wait_list for readers only once") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190428212557.13482-2-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>