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    nilfs2: fix unexpected freezing of nilfs_segctor_sync() · 936184ea
    Ryusuke Konishi authored
    A potential and reproducible race issue has been identified where
    nilfs_segctor_sync() would block even after the log writer thread writes a
    checkpoint, unless there is an interrupt or other trigger to resume log
    writing.
    
    This turned out to be because, depending on the execution timing of the
    log writer thread running in parallel, the log writer thread may skip
    responding to nilfs_segctor_sync(), which causes a call to schedule()
    waiting for completion within nilfs_segctor_sync() to lose the opportunity
    to wake up.
    
    The reason why waking up the task waiting in nilfs_segctor_sync() may be
    skipped is that updating the request generation issued using a shared
    sequence counter and adding an wait queue entry to the request wait queue
    to the log writer, are not done atomically.  There is a possibility that
    log writing and request completion notification by nilfs_segctor_wakeup()
    may occur between the two operations, and in that case, the wait queue
    entry is not yet visible to nilfs_segctor_wakeup() and the wake-up of
    nilfs_segctor_sync() will be carried over until the next request occurs.
    
    Fix this issue by performing these two operations simultaneously within
    the lock section of sc_state_lock.  Also, following the memory barrier
    guidelines for event waiting loops, move the call to set_current_state()
    in the same location into the event waiting loop to ensure that a memory
    barrier is inserted just before the event condition determination.
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240520132621.4054-3-konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com
    Fixes: 9ff05123 ("nilfs2: segment constructor")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarRyusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
    Cc: "Bai, Shuangpeng" <sjb7183@psu.edu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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