Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
authored
Commit 361aee45 ("io-wq: add intermediate work step between pending list and active work") closed a race between a cancellation and the work being removed from the wq for execution. To ensure the request is always reachable by the cancellation, we need to move it within the wq lock, which also synchronizes the cancellation. But commit 42abc95f ("io-wq: decouple work_list protection from the big wqe->lock") replaced the wq lock here and accidentally reintroduced the race by releasing the acct_lock too early. In other words: worker | cancellation work = io_get_next_work() | raw_spin_unlock(&acct->lock); | | | io_acct_cancel_pending_work | io_wq_worker_cancel() worker->next_work = work Using acct_lock is still enough since we synchronize on it on io_acct_cancel_pending_work. Fixes: 42abc95f ("io-wq: decouple work_list protection from the big wqe->lock") Signed-off-by:Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240416021054.3940-2-krisman@suse.de Signed-off-by:
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>