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David Howells authored
Currently, rxrpc gives the call timer a ref on the call when it starts it and this is passed along to the workqueue by the timer expiration function. The problem comes when queue_work() fails (ie. the work item is already queued): the timer routine must put the ref - but this may cause the cleanup code to run. This has the unfortunate effect that the cleanup code may then be run in softirq context - which means that any spinlocks it might need to touch have to be guarded to disable softirqs (ie. they need a "_bh" suffix). Fix this by: (1) Don't give a ref to the timer. (2) Making the expiration function not do anything if the refcount is 0. Note that this is more of an optimisation. (3) Make sure that the cleanup routine waits for timer to complete. However, this has a consequence that timer cannot give a ref to the work item. Therefore the following fixes are also necessary: (4) Don't give a ref to the work item. (5) Make the work item return asap if it sees the ref count is 0. (6) Make sure that the cleanup routine waits for the work item to complete. Unfortunately, neither the timer nor the work item can simply get around the problem by just using refcount_inc_not_zero() as the waits would still have to be done, and there would still be the possibility of having to put the ref in the expiration function. Note the call work item is going to go away with the work being transferred to the I/O thread, so the wait in (6) will become obsolete. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com> cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
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