svcrpc: fix unlikely races preventing queueing of sockets

In the rpc server, When something happens that might be reason to wake
up a thread to do something, what we do is

	- modify xpt_flags, sk_sock->flags, xpt_reserved, or
	  xpt_nr_rqsts to indicate the new situation
	- call svc_xprt_enqueue() to decide whether to wake up a thread.

svc_xprt_enqueue may require multiple conditions to be true before
queueing up a thread to handle the xprt.  In the SMP case, one of the
other CPU's may have set another required condition, and in that case,
although both CPUs run svc_xprt_enqueue(), it's possible that neither
call sees the writes done by the other CPU in time, and neither one
recognizes that all the required conditions have been set.  A socket
could therefore be ignored indefinitely.

Add memory barries to ensure that any svc_xprt_enqueue() call will
always see the conditions changed by other CPUs before deciding to
ignore a socket.

I've never seen this race reported.  In the unlikely event it happens,
another event will usually come along and the problem will fix itself.
So I don't think this is worth backporting to stable.

Chuck tried this patch and said "I don't see any performance
regressions, but my server has only a single last-level CPU cache."

Tested-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
index a2435d3811a9..61530b1b7754 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
@@ -357,6 +357,7 @@ static void svc_xprt_release_slot(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 	struct svc_xprt	*xprt = rqstp->rq_xprt;
 	if (test_and_clear_bit(RQ_DATA, &rqstp->rq_flags)) {
 		atomic_dec(&xprt->xpt_nr_rqsts);
+		smp_wmb(); /* See smp_rmb() in svc_xprt_ready() */
 		svc_xprt_enqueue(xprt);
 	}
 }
@@ -365,6 +366,15 @@ static bool svc_xprt_ready(struct svc_xprt *xprt)
 {
 	unsigned long xpt_flags;
 
+	/*
+	 * If another cpu has recently updated xpt_flags,
+	 * sk_sock->flags, xpt_reserved, or xpt_nr_rqsts, we need to
+	 * know about it; otherwise it's possible that both that cpu and
+	 * this one could call svc_xprt_enqueue() without either
+	 * svc_xprt_enqueue() recognizing that the conditions below
+	 * are satisfied, and we could stall indefinitely:
+	 */
+	smp_rmb();
 	xpt_flags = READ_ONCE(xprt->xpt_flags);
 
 	if (xpt_flags & (BIT(XPT_CONN) | BIT(XPT_CLOSE)))
@@ -479,7 +489,7 @@ void svc_reserve(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, int space)
 	if (xprt && space < rqstp->rq_reserved) {
 		atomic_sub((rqstp->rq_reserved - space), &xprt->xpt_reserved);
 		rqstp->rq_reserved = space;
-
+		smp_wmb(); /* See smp_rmb() in svc_xprt_ready() */
 		svc_xprt_enqueue(xprt);
 	}
 }