genirq: Fix race condition when stopping the irq thread
commita4b63ef678714a98dd8886fea14d5f76da671b6f
authorIdo Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Thu, 1 Dec 2011 11:55:08 +0000 (1 13:55 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 9 Dec 2011 16:55:47 +0000 (9 08:55 -0800)
tree28974262730f3dfd86e89cd71803113b3b74221d
parentaedebb8ae9811dedc3e57757a1048cd8d902fa3a
genirq: Fix race condition when stopping the irq thread

commit 550acb19269d65f32e9ac4ddb26c2b2070e37f1c upstream.

In irq_wait_for_interrupt(), the should_stop member is verified before
setting the task's state to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE and calling schedule().
In case kthread_stop sets should_stop and wakes up the process after
should_stop is checked by the irq thread but before the task's state
is changed, the irq thread might never exit:

kthread_stop                    irq_wait_for_interrupt
------------                    ----------------------

                                 ...
...                              while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
kthread->should_stop = 1;
wake_up_process(k);
wait_for_completion(&kthread->exited);
...
                                     set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);

                                     ...

                                     schedule();
                                 }

Fix this by checking if the thread should stop after modifying the
task's state.

[ tglx: Simplified it a bit ]

Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1322740508-22640-1-git-send-email-ido@wizery.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kernel/irq/manage.c