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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Subject: Lots of bugs with current->state = TASK_*INTERRUPTIBLE
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:29:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1263932978.31321.53.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> (raw)

Peter Zijlstra and I were doing a look over of places that assign
current->state = TASK_*INTERRUPTIBLE, by simply looking at places with:

 $ git grep -A1 'state[[:space:]]*=[[:space:]]*TASK_[^R]'

and it seems there are quite a few places that looks like bugs. To be on
the safe side, everything outside of a run queue lock that sets the
current state to something other than TASK_RUNNING (or dead) should be
using set_current_state().

	current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;
	schedule();

is probably OK, but it would not hurt to be consistent. Here's a few
examples of likely bugs:

>From drivers/staging/line6/midi.c:

        current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;

        while (line6->line6midi->num_active_send_urbs > 0)

>From drivers/staging/line6/pod.c:

        current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;

        while (param->value == POD_system_invalid) {


Also drivers/macintosh/adb.c looks like there's a bug too.

I'm sure there's others but I stopped looking.

Anyway, this looks like a good janitorial work. Anything that assigns
state outside the rq locks to something other than TASK_RUNNING and that
is not before a schedule() (perhaps even those) should be converted to:

	set_current_task(<state>).

This probably should be checked in checkpatch.pl too, if it is not
already.

-- Steve



             reply	other threads:[~2010-01-19 20:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-19 20:29 Steven Rostedt [this message]
2010-01-19 20:58 ` Julia Lawall
2010-01-19 21:08   ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-21 10:47     ` Julia Lawall
2010-01-21 10:53       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-01-21 10:56         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-01-21 10:59           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-01-21 17:31       ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-21 18:12         ` Julia Lawall
2010-01-21 19:18 ` David Daney
2010-01-21 19:34   ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-21 19:57     ` David Daney
2010-01-21 20:18       ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-21 20:21         ` David Daney

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