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    sunrpc/cache: remove races with queuing an upcall. · f9e1aedc
    NeilBrown authored
    We currently queue an upcall after setting CACHE_PENDING,
    and dequeue after clearing CACHE_PENDING.
    So a request should only be present when CACHE_PENDING is set.
    
    However we don't combine the test and the enqueue/dequeue in
    a protected region, so it is possible (if unlikely) for a race
    to result in a request being queued without CACHE_PENDING set,
    or a request to be absent despite CACHE_PENDING.
    
    So: include a test for CACHE_PENDING inside the regions of
    enqueue and dequeue where queue_lock is held, and abort
    the operation if the value is not as expected.
    
    Also remove the early 'return' from cache_dequeue() to ensure that it
    always removes all entries: As there is no locking between setting
    CACHE_PENDING and calling sunrpc_cache_pipe_upcall it is not
    inconceivable for some other thread to clear CACHE_PENDING and then
    someone else to set it and call sunrpc_cache_pipe_upcall, both before
    the original threads completed the call.
    
    With this, it perfectly safe and correct to:
     - call cache_dequeue() if and only if we have just
       cleared CACHE_PENDING
     - call sunrpc_cache_pipe_upcall() (via cache_make_upcall)
       if and only if we have just set CACHE_PENDING.
    Reported-by: default avatarBodo Stroesser <bstroesser@ts.fujitsu.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBodo Stroesser <bstroesser@ts.fujitsu.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
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