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    rcu: Clear need_qs flag to prevent splat · c0135d07
    Paul E. McKenney authored
    If the scheduling-clock interrupt sets the current tasks need_qs flag,
    but if the current CPU passes through a quiescent state in the meantime,
    then rcu_preempt_qs() will fail to clear the need_qs flag, which can fool
    RCU into thinking that additional rcu_read_unlock_special() processing
    is needed.  This commit therefore clears the need_qs flag before checking
    for additional processing.
    
    For this problem to occur, we need rcu_preempt_data.passed_quiesce equal
    to true and current->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs also equal to true.
    This condition can occur as follows:
    
    1.	CPU 0 is aware of the current preemptible RCU grace period,
    	but has not yet passed through a quiescent state.  Among other
    	things, this means that rcu_preempt_data.passed_quiesce is false.
    
    2.	Task A running on CPU 0 enters a preemptible RCU read-side
    	critical section.
    
    3.	CPU 0 takes a scheduling-clock interrupt, which notices the
    	RCU read-side critical section and the need for a quiescent state,
    	and thus sets current->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs to true.
    
    4.	Task A is preempted, enters the scheduler, eventually invoking
    	rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() which in turn invokes
    	rcu_preempt_qs().
    
    	Because rcu_preempt_data.passed_quiesce is false,
    	control enters the body of the "if" statement, which sets
    	rcu_preempt_data.passed_quiesce to true.
    
    5.	At this point, CPU 0 takes an interrupt.  The interrupt
    	handler contains an RCU read-side critical section, and
    	the rcu_read_unlock() notes that current->rcu_read_unlock_special
    	is nonzero, and thus invokes rcu_read_unlock_special().
    
    6.	Once in rcu_read_unlock_special(), the fact that
    	current->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs is true becomes
    	apparent, so rcu_read_unlock_special() invokes rcu_preempt_qs().
    	Recursively, given that we interrupted out of that same
    	function in the preceding step.
    
    7.	Because rcu_preempt_data.passed_quiesce is now true,
    	rcu_preempt_qs() does nothing, and simply returns.
    
    8.	Upon return to rcu_read_unlock_special(), it is noted that
    	current->rcu_read_unlock_special is still nonzero (because
    	the interrupted rcu_preempt_qs() had not yet gotten around
    	to clearing current->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs).
    
    9.	Execution proceeds to the WARN_ON_ONCE(), which notes that
    	we are in an interrupt handler and thus duly splats.
    
    The solution, as noted above, is to make rcu_read_unlock_special()
    clear out current->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs after calling
    rcu_preempt_qs().  The interrupted rcu_preempt_qs() will clear it again,
    but this is harmless.  The worst that happens is that we clobber another
    attempt to set this field, but this is not a problem because we just
    got done reporting a quiescent state.
    Reported-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    [ paulmck: Fix embarrassing build bug noted by Sasha Levin. ]
    Tested-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
    c0135d07
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