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Commit09b3efec("bcache: Don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API") replaces the following while loop by llist_for_each_entry(), - - while (reverse) { - cl = container_of(reverse, struct closure, list); - reverse = llist_next(reverse); - + llist_for_each_entry(cl, reverse, list) { closure_set_waiting(cl, 0); closure_sub(cl, CLOSURE_WAITING + 1); } This modification introduces a potential race by iterating a corrupted list. Here is how it happens. In the above modification, closure_sub() may wake up a process which is waiting on reverse list. If this process decides to wait again by calling closure_wait(), its cl->list will be added to another wait list. Then when llist_for_each_entry() continues to iterate next node, it will travel on another new wait list which is added in closure_wait(), not the original reverse list in __closure_wake_up(). It is more probably to happen on UP machine because the waked up process may preempt the process which wakes up it. Use llist_for_each_entry_safe() will fix the issue, the safe version fetch next node before waking up a process. Then the copy of next node will make sure list iteration stays on original reverse list. Fixes:09b3efec81("bcache: Don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API") Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> Reported-by: Michael Lyle <mlyle@lyle.org> Reviewed-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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