rcu: Avoid RCU-preempt expedited grace-period botch
Because rcu_read_unlock_special() samples rcu_preempted_readers_exp(rnp)
after dropping rnp->lock, the following sequence of events is possible:
1. Task A exits its RCU read-side critical section, and removes
itself from the ->blkd_tasks list, releases rnp->lock, and is
then preempted. Task B remains on the ->blkd_tasks list, and
blocks the current expedited grace period.
2. Task B exits from its RCU read-side critical section and removes
itself from the ->blkd_tasks list. Because it is the last task
blocking the current expedited grace period, it ends that
expedited grace period.
3. Task A resumes, and samples rcu_preempted_readers_exp(rnp) which
of course indicates that nothing is blocking the nonexistent
expedited grace period. Task A is again preempted.
4. Some other CPU starts an expedited grace period. There are several
tasks blocking this expedited grace period queued on the
same rcu_node structure that Task A was using in step 1 above.
5. Task A examines its state and incorrectly concludes that it was
the last task blocking the expedited grace period on the current
rcu_node structure. It therefore reports completion up the
rcu_node tree.
6. The expedited grace period can then incorrectly complete before
the tasks blocked on this same rcu_node structure exit their
RCU read-side critical sections. Arbitrarily bad things happen.
This commit therefore takes a snapshot of rcu_preempted_readers_exp(rnp)
prior to dropping the lock, so that only the last task thinks that it is
the last task, thus avoiding the failure scenario laid out above.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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