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AFS: Fix kafs module unloading 

At present, it is not possible to successfully unload the kafs module if there
are outstanding async outgoing calls (those made with afs_make_call()).  This
appears to be due to the changes introduced by:

	commit 059499453a
	Author: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
	Date:   Fri Mar 7 10:24:50 2014 -0500
	Subject: afs: don't use PREPARE_WORK

which didn't go far enough.  The problem is due to:

 (1) The aforementioned commit introduced a separate handler function pointer
     in the call, call->async_workfn, in addition to the original workqueue
     item, call->async_work, for asynchronous operations because workqueues
     subsystem cannot handle the workqueue item pointer being changed whilst
     the item is queued or being processed.

 (2) afs_async_workfn() was introduced in that commit to be the callback for
     call->async_work.  Its sole purpose is to run whatever call->async_workfn
     points to.

 (3) call->async_workfn is only used from afs_async_workfn(), which is only
     set on async_work by afs_collect_incoming_call() - ie. for incoming
     calls.

 (4) call->async_workfn is *not* set by afs_make_call() when outgoing calls are
     made, and call->async_work is set afs_process_async_call() - and not
     afs_async_workfn().

 (5) afs_process_async_call() now changes call->async_workfn rather than
     call->async_work to point to afs_delete_async_call() to clean up, but this
     is only effective for incoming calls because call->async_work does not
     point to afs_async_workfn() for outgoing calls.

 (6) Because, for incoming calls, call->async_work remains pointing to
     afs_process_async_call() this results in an infinite loop.

Instead, make the workqueue uniformly vector through call->async_workfn, via
afs_async_workfn() and simply initialise call->async_workfn to point to
afs_process_async_call() in afs_make_call().

Signed-off-by: Nathaniel Wesley Filardo <nwf@cs.jhu.edu>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Nathaniel Wesley Filardo 2014-05-21 14:58:26 +01:00 committed by David Howells
parent 6cf12869f5
commit 150a6b4789
1 changed files with 9 additions and 8 deletions
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fs/afs/rxrpc.c
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@ -58,6 +58,13 @@ static void afs_collect_incoming_call(struct work_struct *);
static struct sk_buff_head afs_incoming_calls;
static DECLARE_WORK(afs_collect_incoming_call_work, afs_collect_incoming_call);
static void afs_async_workfn(struct work_struct *work)
{
struct afs_call *call = container_of(work, struct afs_call, async_work);
call->async_workfn(work);
}
/*
* open an RxRPC socket and bind it to be a server for callback notifications
* - the socket is left in blocking mode and non-blocking ops use MSG_DONTWAIT
@ -348,7 +355,8 @@ int afs_make_call(struct in_addr *addr, struct afs_call *call, gfp_t gfp,
atomic_read(&afs_outstanding_calls));
call->wait_mode = wait_mode;
INIT_WORK(&call->async_work, afs_process_async_call);
call->async_workfn = afs_process_async_call;
INIT_WORK(&call->async_work, afs_async_workfn);
memset(&srx, 0, sizeof(srx));
srx.srx_family = AF_RXRPC;
@ -672,13 +680,6 @@ void afs_transfer_reply(struct afs_call *call, struct sk_buff *skb)
call->reply_size += len;
}
static void afs_async_workfn(struct work_struct *work)
{
struct afs_call *call = container_of(work, struct afs_call, async_work);
call->async_workfn(work);
}
/*
* accept the backlog of incoming calls
*/