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authorTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2006-11-13 16:23:44 -0500
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2006-12-06 10:46:26 -0500
commit8aca67f0ae2d8811165c22326825a645cc8e1b48 (patch)
tree19e82f4bc7b4f865a9dcf4744e7c224ea517ba10 /include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h
parente6b3c4db6fbcd0d33720696f37790d6b8be12313 (diff)
SUNRPC: Fix a potential race in rpc_wake_up_task()
Use RCU to ensure that we can safely call rpc_finish_wakeup after we've called __rpc_do_wake_up_task. If not, there is a theoretical race, in which the rpc_task finishes executing, and gets freed first. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h
index 9fdb8c9d09f2..14fc813ddd0c 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
#include <linux/timer.h>
#include <linux/sunrpc/types.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/wait.h>
#include <linux/workqueue.h>
@@ -85,6 +86,7 @@ struct rpc_task {
union {
struct work_struct tk_work; /* Async task work queue */
struct rpc_wait tk_wait; /* RPC wait */
+ struct rcu_head tk_rcu; /* for task deletion */
} u;
unsigned short tk_timeouts; /* maj timeouts */