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Lai Jiangshan 07b4a930fc rcu: Don't set nesting depth negative in rcu_preempt_deferred_qs()
Now that RCU flavors have been consolidated, an RCU-preempt
rcu_read_unlock() in an interrupt or softirq handler cannot possibly
end the RCU read-side critical section.  Consider the old vulnerability
involving rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() being invoked within such a handler
that interrupted an extended RCU read-side critical section, in which
a wakeup might be invoked with a scheduler lock held.  Because
rcu_read_unlock_special() no longer does wakeups in such situations,
it is no longer necessary for rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() to set the
nesting level negative.

This commit therefore removes this recursion-protection code from
rcu_preempt_deferred_qs().

[ paulmck: Fix typo in commit log per Steve Rostedt. ]
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:50 -07:00
arch A set of fixes for x86 and objtool: 2020-04-19 11:58:32 -07:00
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Documentation rcu: Make rcu_read_unlock_special() safe for rq/pi locks 2020-04-27 11:03:50 -07:00
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