If an application has a dedicated read thread watching xenbus and
another thread writes an XS_WATCH message that generates a synthetic
"OK" reply, this reply will be enqueued in the buffer without waking up
the reader. This can cause a deadlock in the application if it then
waits for the read thread to receive the queued message.
Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <[email protected]>
commit
e752969f502a511e83f841aa01d6cd332e6d85a0
Author: Daniel De Graaf <
[email protected]>
Date: Tue Sep 7 11:21:52 2010 -0400
xenbus: fix deadlock in concurrent read/write
If an application has a dedicated read thread watching xenbus and another
thread writes an XS_WATCH message that generates a synthetic "OK" reply,
this reply will be enqueued in the buffer without waking up the reader.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]>
mutex_lock(&u->reply_mutex);
rc = queue_reply(&u->read_buffers, &reply, sizeof(reply));
+ wake_up(&u->read_waitq);
mutex_unlock(&u->reply_mutex);
}