Whamcloud - gitweb
LU-2889 ptlrpc: Race between start and stop service threads
authorHiroya Nozaki <nozaki.hiroya@jp.fujitsu.com>
Tue, 7 May 2013 03:22:32 +0000 (12:22 +0900)
committerOleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>
Thu, 13 Jun 2013 23:28:03 +0000 (19:28 -0400)
commit18456c36158a471383d039d1863d286699f92b22
treeb306dba4dc8a0443bf632fdd9fdf17c752d4e3c6
parent19242e5557c71346597f2ebb4509c9c25e7a0113
LU-2889 ptlrpc: Race between start and stop service threads

When ptlrpc_start_thread fails to create a new thread, it will
finalize and free a struct ptlrpc_thread created and used here.
Considering this, it can be a problem when ptlrpc_svcpt_stop_thread
is driven and handles the struct ptlrpc_thread right after or right
before failure of cfs_create_thread. Because this situation let
the both of ptlrpc_start_thread and ptlrpc_svcpt_stop_threads
access the freed ptlrpc_thread and cause OS panic. Or, it may
happen that ptlrpc_svcpt_stop_threads waits forever holding an
already-freed waitq.

This patch adds an error handling into ptlrpc_start_thread to fix
this problem.

Signed-off-by: Hiroya Nozaki <nozaki.hiroya@jp.fujitsu.com>
Change-Id: Ic25f40f8650c65e21abe4df127fc20f9c7d0fcd1
Reviewed-on: http://review.whamcloud.com/5552
Tested-by: Hudson
Tested-by: Maloo <whamcloud.maloo@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Liang Zhen <liang.zhen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikitas Angelinas <nikitas_angelinas@xyratex.com>
Reviewed-by: Keith Mannthey <keith.mannthey@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>
lustre/ptlrpc/service.c