tty/ldsem: Wake up readers after timed out down_write()
authorDmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Thu, 1 Nov 2018 00:24:46 +0000 (00:24 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 23 Jan 2019 07:10:52 +0000 (08:10 +0100)
commit6e8dba394f06e9c84f89ed0284825f67720bb3a3
treef3b9d20b3e6f531f6f6387af372c03683a725e37
parent008bfb9312968bc6af54e47746a9d9f66c8388c0
tty/ldsem: Wake up readers after timed out down_write()

commit 231f8fd0cca078bd4396dd7e380db813ac5736e2 upstream.

ldsem_down_read() will sleep if there is pending writer in the queue.
If the writer times out, readers in the queue should be woken up,
otherwise they may miss a chance to acquire the semaphore until the last
active reader will do ldsem_up_read().

There was a couple of reports where there was one active reader and
other readers soft locked up:
  Showing all locks held in the system:
  2 locks held by khungtaskd/17:
   #0:  (rcu_read_lock){......}, at: watchdog+0x124/0x6d1
   #1:  (tasklist_lock){.+.+..}, at: debug_show_all_locks+0x72/0x2d3
  2 locks held by askfirst/123:
   #0:  (&tty->ldisc_sem){.+.+.+}, at: ldsem_down_read+0x46/0x58
   #1:  (&ldata->atomic_read_lock){+.+...}, at: n_tty_read+0x115/0xbe4

Prevent readers wait for active readers to release ldisc semaphore.

Link: lkml.kernel.org/r/20171121132855.ajdv4k6swzhvktl6@wfg-t540p.sh.intel.com
Link: lkml.kernel.org/r/20180907045041.GF1110@shao2-debian
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/tty_ldsem.c