On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 01:33:07PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > On 03/20/2013 03:55 PM, Rik van Riel wrote: > > This series makes the sysv semaphore code more scalable, > > by reducing the time the semaphore lock is held, and making > > the locking more scalable for semaphore arrays with multiple > > semaphores. > > Hi Rik, > > Another issue that came up is: > > [ 96.347341] ================================================ > [ 96.348085] [ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ] > [ 96.348834] 3.9.0-rc4-next-20130326-sasha-00011-gbcb2313 #318 Tainted: G > W > [ 96.360300] ------------------------------------------------ > [ 96.361084] trinity-child9/7583 is leaving the kernel with locks still > held! > [ 96.362019] 1 lock held by trinity-child9/7583: > [ 96.362610] #0: (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8192eafb>] > SYSC_semtimedop+0x1fb/0xec0 > > It seems that we can leave semtimedop without releasing the rcu read lock. > > I'm a bit confused by what's going on in semtimedop with regards to rcu read > lock, it > seems that this behaviour is actually intentional? > > rcu_read_lock(); > sma = sem_obtain_object_check(ns, semid); > if (IS_ERR(sma)) { > if (un) > rcu_read_unlock(); > error = PTR_ERR(sma); > goto out_free; > } > > When I've looked at that it seems that not releasing the read lock was (very) > intentional. > > After that, the only code path that would release the lock starts with: > > if (un) { > ... > > So we won't release the lock at all if un is NULL?
Intentions notwithstanding, it is absolutely required to exit any and all RCU read-side critical sections prior to going into user mode. I suggest removing the "if (un)". Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/