From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 09:34:20 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: worker_thread: fix racy try_to_freeze() usage
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.22-rc1~216
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=85f4186af944c1240c84934a9ab578743df2d69b;p=linux-2.6

worker_thread: fix racy try_to_freeze() usage

worker_thread() can miss freeze_process()->signal_wake_up() if it happens
between try_to_freeze() and prepare_to_wait().  We should check freezing()
before entering schedule().

This race was introduced by me in

	[PATCH 1/1] workqueue: don't migrate pending works from the dead CPU

Looks like mm/vmscan.c:kswapd() has the same race.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 87693b37d0..63885abf1b 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -308,14 +308,14 @@ static int worker_thread(void *__cwq)
 	do_sigaction(SIGCHLD, &sa, (struct k_sigaction *)0);
 
 	for (;;) {
-		if (cwq->wq->freezeable)
-			try_to_freeze();
-
 		prepare_to_wait(&cwq->more_work, &wait, TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
-		if (!cwq->should_stop && list_empty(&cwq->worklist))
+		if (!freezing(current) && !cwq->should_stop
+		    && list_empty(&cwq->worklist))
 			schedule();
 		finish_wait(&cwq->more_work, &wait);
 
+		try_to_freeze();
+
 		if (cwq_should_stop(cwq))
 			break;