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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/signal.c | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/task_work.c | 8 |
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index 6f16f7c5d375..42b67d2cea37 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -2541,7 +2541,21 @@ bool get_signal(struct ksignal *ksig) relock: spin_lock_irq(&sighand->siglock); - current->jobctl &= ~JOBCTL_TASK_WORK; + /* + * Make sure we can safely read ->jobctl() in task_work add. As Oleg + * states: + * + * It pairs with mb (implied by cmpxchg) before READ_ONCE. So we + * roughly have + * + * task_work_add: get_signal: + * STORE(task->task_works, new_work); STORE(task->jobctl); + * mb(); mb(); + * LOAD(task->jobctl); LOAD(task->task_works); + * + * and we can rely on STORE-MB-LOAD [ in task_work_add]. + */ + smp_store_mb(current->jobctl, current->jobctl & ~JOBCTL_TASK_WORK); if (unlikely(current->task_works)) { spin_unlock_irq(&sighand->siglock); task_work_run(); diff --git a/kernel/task_work.c b/kernel/task_work.c index 5c0848ca1287..613b2d634af8 100644 --- a/kernel/task_work.c +++ b/kernel/task_work.c @@ -42,7 +42,13 @@ task_work_add(struct task_struct *task, struct callback_head *work, int notify) set_notify_resume(task); break; case TWA_SIGNAL: - if (lock_task_sighand(task, &flags)) { + /* + * Only grab the sighand lock if we don't already have some + * task_work pending. This pairs with the smp_store_mb() + * in get_signal(), see comment there. + */ + if (!(READ_ONCE(task->jobctl) & JOBCTL_TASK_WORK) && + lock_task_sighand(task, &flags)) { task->jobctl |= JOBCTL_TASK_WORK; signal_wake_up(task, 0); unlock_task_sighand(task, &flags); |