From 9f9c23644b07e7a51f6f39064e61c150be712932 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:31:20 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] workqueue: fix locking in retry path of maybe_create_worker() maybe_create_worker() mismanaged locking when worker creation fails and it has to retry. Fix locking and simplify lock manipulation. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Yong Zhang --- kernel/workqueue.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c index 20d6237d7498..aca94726e20a 100644 --- a/kernel/workqueue.c +++ b/kernel/workqueue.c @@ -1442,14 +1442,14 @@ static bool maybe_create_worker(struct global_cwq *gcwq) if (!need_to_create_worker(gcwq)) return false; restart: + spin_unlock_irq(&gcwq->lock); + /* if we don't make progress in MAYDAY_INITIAL_TIMEOUT, call for help */ mod_timer(&gcwq->mayday_timer, jiffies + MAYDAY_INITIAL_TIMEOUT); while (true) { struct worker *worker; - spin_unlock_irq(&gcwq->lock); - worker = create_worker(gcwq, true); if (worker) { del_timer_sync(&gcwq->mayday_timer); @@ -1462,15 +1462,13 @@ restart: if (!need_to_create_worker(gcwq)) break; - spin_unlock_irq(&gcwq->lock); __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); schedule_timeout(CREATE_COOLDOWN); - spin_lock_irq(&gcwq->lock); + if (!need_to_create_worker(gcwq)) break; } - spin_unlock_irq(&gcwq->lock); del_timer_sync(&gcwq->mayday_timer); spin_lock_irq(&gcwq->lock); if (need_to_create_worker(gcwq)) -- 2.30.2