linux/kernel/locking
John Stultz bdaf235913 locking: mutex: Fix proxy-exec potentially deactivating tasks marked TASK_RUNNING
Vineeth found came up with a test driver that could trip up
workqueue stalls. After fixing one issue this test found,
Vineeth reported the test was still failing.

Greatly simplified, a task that tries to take a mutex already
owned by another task that is sleeping, can hit a edge case in
the mutex_lock_common() case.

If the task fails to get the lock, calls into schedule, but gets
a spurious wakeup, it will find that it is first waiter, and
go into the mutex_optimistic_spin() logic. Though before calling
mutex_optimistic_spin(), we clear task blocked_on state, since
mutex_optimistic_spin() may call schedule() if need_resched() is
set.

After mutex_optimistic_spin() fails, we set blocked_on again,
restart the main mutex loop, try to take the lock and call into
schedule_preempt_disabled().

From there, with proxy-execution, we'll see the task is
blocked_on, follow the chain, see the owner is sleeping and
dequeue the waiting task from the runqueue.

This all sounds fine and reasonable.  But what I had missed is
that in mutex_optimistic_spin(), not only do we call schedule()
but we set TASK_RUNNABLE right before doing so.

This is ok for that invocation of schedule(). But when we come
back we re-set the blocked_on we had just cleared, but we do not
re-set the task state to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE/UNINTERRUPTIBLE.

This means we have a task that is blocked_on & TASK_RUNNABLE,
so when the proxy execution code dequeues the task, we are
in trouble since future wakeups will be shortcut by the
ttwu_state_match() check.

Thus, to avoid this, after mutex_optimistic_spin(), set the task
state back when we set blocked_on.

Many many thanks again to Vineeth for his very useful testing
driver that uncovered this long hidden bug, that I hadn't
tripped in all my testing! Very impressed with the problems he's
uncovered!

Reported-by: Vineeth Pillai <vineethrp@google.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Vineeth Pillai <vineethrp@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260430215103.2978955-3-jstultz@google.com
2026-06-02 12:26:05 +02:00
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irqflag-debug.c
lock_events_list.h bpf_res_spin_lock 2025-03-30 13:06:27 -07:00
lock_events.c locking/debug: Fix debugfs API return value checks to use IS_ERR() 2023-10-03 10:11:25 +02:00
lock_events.h locking/qspinlock: Always evaluate lockevent* non-event parameter once 2024-03-21 20:45:17 +01:00
lockdep_internals.h locking/lockdep: Change 'static const' variables to enum values 2025-07-14 21:57:29 -07:00
lockdep_proc.c locking/lockdep: Avoid struct return in lock_stats() 2025-07-14 21:57:20 -07:00
lockdep_states.h
lockdep.c lockdep: Speed up lockdep_unregister_key() with expedited RCU synchronization 2025-07-14 21:57:29 -07:00
locktorture.c Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses 2026-02-22 08:26:33 -08:00
Makefile locking/rwsem: Add context analysis 2026-03-08 11:06:53 +01:00
mcs_spinlock.h locking: Allow obtaining result of arch_mcs_spin_lock_contended 2025-03-19 08:03:04 -07:00
mutex-debug.c Scheduler changes for v7.1: 2026-04-14 13:33:36 -07:00
mutex.c locking: mutex: Fix proxy-exec potentially deactivating tasks marked TASK_RUNNING 2026-06-02 12:26:05 +02:00
mutex.h Scheduler changes for v7.1: 2026-04-14 13:33:36 -07:00
osq_lock.c locking/osq_lock: Use atomic_try_cmpxchg_release() in osq_unlock() 2024-10-25 10:01:50 +02:00
percpu-rwsem.c locking/percpu-rwsem: add freezable alternative to down_read 2025-04-07 09:37:16 +02:00
qrwlock.c locking: Add __lockfunc to slow path functions 2022-08-19 19:47:51 +02:00
qspinlock_paravirt.h locking/pvqspinlock: Convert fields of 'enum vcpu_state' to uppercase 2024-10-17 21:21:16 -07:00
qspinlock_stat.h
qspinlock.c locking: Move common qspinlock helpers to a private header 2025-03-19 08:02:29 -07:00
qspinlock.h locking: Move common qspinlock helpers to a private header 2025-03-19 08:02:29 -07:00
rtmutex_api.c locking/rtmutex: Add context analysis 2026-03-08 11:06:53 +01:00
rtmutex_common.h locking/rtmutex: Add context analysis 2026-03-08 11:06:53 +01:00
rtmutex.c rtmutex: Use waiter::task instead of current in remove_waiter() 2026-04-21 00:22:31 +02:00
rwbase_rt.c locking/rwsem: Add context analysis 2026-03-08 11:06:53 +01:00
rwsem.c locking/rwsem: Fix logic error in rwsem_del_waiter() 2026-03-16 13:16:48 +01:00
semaphore.c locking/semaphore: Remove the list_head from struct semaphore 2026-03-08 11:06:52 +01:00
spinlock_debug.c locking/spinlock/debug: Fix data-race in do_raw_write_lock 2025-10-21 12:31:55 +02:00
spinlock_rt.c Scheduler changes for v6.13: 2024-11-19 14:16:06 -08:00
spinlock.c locking: Add lock context annotations in the spinlock implementation 2026-03-16 13:16:50 +01:00
test-ww_mutex.c Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument 2026-02-21 17:09:51 -08:00
ww_mutex.h locking/mutex: Fix ww_mutex wait_list operations 2026-04-23 10:05:49 +02:00
ww_rt_mutex.c locking/rtmutex: Add context analysis 2026-03-08 11:06:53 +01:00