A full memory barrier is required between clearing SB_ACTIVE flag in
generic_shutdown_super() and checking isw_nr_in_flight in
cgroup_writeback_umount(), otherwise a new switch operation might be
scheduled after atomic_read(&isw_nr_in_flight) returned 0. This would
result in a non-flushed isw_wq, and a potential crash.
The problem hasn't yet been seen in the real life and was discovered by
Jan Kara by looking into the code.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608230225.2078447-3-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
*/
void cgroup_writeback_umount(void)
{
+ /*
+ * SB_ACTIVE should be reliably cleared before checking
+ * isw_nr_in_flight, see generic_shutdown_super().
+ */
+ smp_mb();
+
if (atomic_read(&isw_nr_in_flight)) {
/*
* Use rcu_barrier() to wait for all pending callbacks to