xen: fix race in xen_qlock_wait()
In the following situation a vcpu waiting for a lock might not be woken up from xen_poll_irq(): CPU 1: CPU 2: CPU 3: takes a spinlock tries to get lock -> xen_qlock_wait() frees the lock -> xen_qlock_kick(cpu2) -> xen_clear_irq_pending() takes lock again tries to get lock -> *lock = _Q_SLOW_VAL -> *lock == _Q_SLOW_VAL ? -> xen_poll_irq() frees the lock -> xen_qlock_kick(cpu3) And cpu 2 will sleep forever. This can be avoided easily by modifying xen_qlock_wait() to call xen_poll_irq() only if the related irq was not pending and to call xen_clear_irq_pending() only if it was pending. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Waiman.Long@hp.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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