workqueue: exit rescuer_thread() as TASK_RUNNING
A rescue thread exiting TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE can lead to a task scheduling
off, never to be seen again. In the case where this occurred, an exiting
thread hit reiserfs homebrew conditional resched while holding a mutex,
bringing the box to its knees.
PID: 18105 TASK:
ffff8807fd412180 CPU: 5 COMMAND: "kdmflush"
#0 [
ffff8808157e7670] schedule at
ffffffff8143f489
#1 [
ffff8808157e77b8] reiserfs_get_block at
ffffffffa038ab2d [reiserfs]
#2 [
ffff8808157e79a8] __block_write_begin at
ffffffff8117fb14
#3 [
ffff8808157e7a98] reiserfs_write_begin at
ffffffffa0388695 [reiserfs]
#4 [
ffff8808157e7ad8] generic_perform_write at
ffffffff810ee9e2
#5 [
ffff8808157e7b58] generic_file_buffered_write at
ffffffff810eeb41
#6 [
ffff8808157e7ba8] __generic_file_aio_write at
ffffffff810f1a3a
#7 [
ffff8808157e7c58] generic_file_aio_write at
ffffffff810f1c88
#8 [
ffff8808157e7cc8] do_sync_write at
ffffffff8114f850
#9 [
ffff8808157e7dd8] do_acct_process at
ffffffff810a268f
[exception RIP: kernel_thread_helper]
RIP:
ffffffff8144a5c0 RSP:
ffff8808157e7f58 RFLAGS:
00000202
RAX:
0000000000000000 RBX:
0000000000000000 RCX:
0000000000000000
RDX:
0000000000000000 RSI:
ffffffff8107af60 RDI:
ffff8803ee491d18
RBP:
0000000000000000 R8:
0000000000000000 R9:
0000000000000000
R10:
0000000000000000 R11:
0000000000000000 R12:
0000000000000000
R13:
0000000000000000 R14:
0000000000000000 R15:
0000000000000000
ORIG_RAX:
ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org