4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cas...@axis.com>

commit 17fcbd590d0c3e35bd9646e2215f86586378bc42 upstream.

We hang if SIGKILL has been sent, but the task is stuck in down_read()
(after do_exit()), even though no task is doing down_write() on the
rwsem in question:

  INFO: task libupnp:21868 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
  libupnp         D    0 21868      1 0x08100008
  ...
  Call Trace:
  __schedule()
  schedule()
  __down_read()
  do_exit()
  do_group_exit()
  __wake_up_parent()

This bug has already been fixed for CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y in
the following commit:

 04cafed7fc19 ("locking/rwsem: Fix down_write_killable()")

... however, this bug also exists for CONFIG_RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK=y.

Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cas...@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: <mho...@suse.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Niklas Cassel <nikl...@axis.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
Fixes: d47996082f52 ("locking/rwsem: Introduce basis for down_write_killable()")
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1487981873-12649-1-git-send-email-nikl...@axis.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c |   15 ++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c
@@ -216,10 +216,8 @@ int __sched __down_write_common(struct r
                 */
                if (sem->count == 0)
                        break;
-               if (signal_pending_state(state, current)) {
-                       ret = -EINTR;
-                       goto out;
-               }
+               if (signal_pending_state(state, current))
+                       goto out_nolock;
                set_task_state(tsk, state);
                raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sem->wait_lock, flags);
                schedule();
@@ -227,12 +225,19 @@ int __sched __down_write_common(struct r
        }
        /* got the lock */
        sem->count = -1;
-out:
        list_del(&waiter.list);
 
        raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sem->wait_lock, flags);
 
        return ret;
+
+out_nolock:
+       list_del(&waiter.list);
+       if (!list_empty(&sem->wait_list))
+               __rwsem_do_wake(sem, 1);
+       raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sem->wait_lock, flags);
+
+       return -EINTR;
 }
 
 void __sched __down_write(struct rw_semaphore *sem)


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