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author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> | 2019-02-13 13:54:37 -0800 |
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committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> | 2019-03-26 14:39:24 -0700 |
commit | f5ad3991493c69d203d42b94d32349b54c58a3f1 (patch) | |
tree | 681ce80c3c203737842bbe73b06b8fa983a9e0ca /include/linux/srcu.h | |
parent | 5cdfd174ea6c2dc1d331b61bdc9572698658600a (diff) | |
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srcu: Remove cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced()
The cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced() function was added because NVME
used WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueues and SRCU did not, which meant that
NVME workqueues waiting on SRCU workqueues could result in deadlocks
during low-memory conditions. However, SRCU now also has WQ_MEM_RECLAIM
workqueues, so there is no longer a potential for deadlock. Furthermore,
it turns out to be extremely hard to use cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced()
correctly due to the fact that SRCU callback invocation accesses the
srcu_struct structure's per-CPU data area just after callbacks are
invoked. Therefore, the usual practice of using srcu_barrier() to wait
for callbacks to be invoked before invoking cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced()
fails because SRCU's callback-invocation workqueue handler might be
delayed, which can result in cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced() being invoked
(and thus freeing the per-CPU data) before the SRCU's callback-invocation
workqueue handler is finished using that per-CPU data. Nor is this a
theoretical problem: KASAN emitted use-after-free warnings because of
this problem on actual runs.
In short, NVME can now safely invoke cleanup_srcu_struct(), which
avoids the use-after-free scenario. And cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced()
is quite difficult to use safely. This commit therefore removes
cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced(), switching its sole user back to
cleanup_srcu_struct(). This effectively reverts the following pair
of commits:
f7194ac32ca2 ("srcu: Add cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced()")
4317228ad9b8 ("nvme: Avoid flush dependency in delete controller flow")
Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Tested-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/srcu.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/srcu.h | 36 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 35 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/srcu.h b/include/linux/srcu.h index c495b2d51569..e432cc92c73d 100644 --- a/include/linux/srcu.h +++ b/include/linux/srcu.h @@ -56,45 +56,11 @@ struct srcu_struct { }; void call_srcu(struct srcu_struct *ssp, struct rcu_head *head, void (*func)(struct rcu_head *head)); -void _cleanup_srcu_struct(struct srcu_struct *ssp, bool quiesced); +void cleanup_srcu_struct(struct srcu_struct *ssp); int __srcu_read_lock(struct srcu_struct *ssp) __acquires(ssp); void __srcu_read_unlock(struct srcu_struct *ssp, int idx) __releases(ssp); void synchronize_srcu(struct srcu_struct *ssp); -/** - * cleanup_srcu_struct - deconstruct a sleep-RCU structure - * @ssp: structure to clean up. - * - * Must invoke this after you are finished using a given srcu_struct that - * was initialized via init_srcu_struct(), else you leak memory. - */ -static inline void cleanup_srcu_struct(struct srcu_struct *ssp) -{ - _cleanup_srcu_struct(ssp, false); -} - -/** - * cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced - deconstruct a quiesced sleep-RCU structure - * @ssp: structure to clean up. - * - * Must invoke this after you are finished using a given srcu_struct that - * was initialized via init_srcu_struct(), else you leak memory. Also, - * all grace-period processing must have completed. - * - * "Completed" means that the last synchronize_srcu() and - * synchronize_srcu_expedited() calls must have returned before the call - * to cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced(). It also means that the callback - * from the last call_srcu() must have been invoked before the call to - * cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced(), but you can use srcu_barrier() to help - * with this last. Violating these rules will get you a WARN_ON() splat - * (with high probability, anyway), and will also cause the srcu_struct - * to be leaked. - */ -static inline void cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced(struct srcu_struct *ssp) -{ - _cleanup_srcu_struct(ssp, true); -} - #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC /** |