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    sunrpc: fix write space race causing stalls · 295a9be4
    David Vrabel authored
    BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1637510
    
    commit d48f9ce7 upstream.
    
    Write space becoming available may race with putting the task to sleep
    in xprt_wait_for_buffer_space().  The existing mechanism to avoid the
    race does not work.
    
    This (edited) partial trace illustrates the problem:
    
       [1] rpc_task_run_action: task:43546@5 ... action=call_transmit
       [2] xs_write_space <-xs_tcp_write_space
       [3] xprt_write_space <-xs_write_space
       [4] rpc_task_sleep: task:43546@5 ...
       [5] xs_write_space <-xs_tcp_write_space
    
    [1] Task 43546 runs but is out of write space.
    
    [2] Space becomes available, xs_write_space() clears the
        SOCKWQ_ASYNC_NOSPACE bit.
    
    [3] xprt_write_space() attemts to wake xprt->snd_task (== 43546), but
        this has not yet been queued and the wake up is lost.
    
    [4] xs_nospace() is called which calls xprt_wait_for_buffer_space()
        which queues task 43546.
    
    [5] The call to sk->sk_write_space() at the end of xs_nospace() (which
        is supposed to handle the above race) does not call
        xprt_write_space() as the SOCKWQ_ASYNC_NOSPACE bit is clear and
        thus the task is not woken.
    
    Fix the race by resetting the SOCKWQ_ASYNC_NOSPACE bit in xs_nospace()
    so the second call to sk->sk_write_space() calls xprt_write_space().
    Suggested-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <trondmy@primarydata.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAnna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
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