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Date:      Tue, 29 Oct 2002 01:54:26 -0800 (PST)
From:      Neal Fachan <neal@isilon.com>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   kern/44585: bug in lockmgr
Message-ID:  <200210290954.g9T9sQ9P050011@www.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         44585
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       bug in lockmgr
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Oct 29 02:00:03 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Neal Fachan
>Release:        5.0-CURRENT from a few months back
>Organization:
Isilon Systems, Inc.
>Environment:
>Description:
Imagine three threads.

Threads 1 and 2 get shared lock:

lk_sharecount = 2;
lk_flags = LK_SHARE_NONZERO;

Thread 3 goes to get exclusive. It gets through the first acquire
without sleeping (LK_HAVE_EXCL | LK_WANT_EXCL). It then sets
LK_WANT_EXCL and then sleeps on the second acquire:

lk_sharecount = 2;
lk_flags = LK_WANT_EXCL | LK_SHARE_NONZERO;
thread 3 sleeping on: !(LK_WANT_UPGRADE | LK_SHARE_NONZERO);

Thread 2 goes to sleep waiting on an upgrade:

lk_sharecount = 1;
lk_flags = LK_WANT_EXCL | LK_WANT_UPGRADE | LK_SHARE_NONZERO;
thread 2 sleeping on: !(LK_SHARE_NONZERO);
thread 3 sleeping on: !(LK_SHARE_NONZERO | LK_WANT_UPGRADE);

Thread 1 unlocks shared lock:

lk_sharecount = 0;
lk_flags = LK_WANT_EXCL | LK_WANT_UPGRADE;
thread 2 sleeping on: !(LK_SHARE_NONZERO);
thread 3 sleeping on: !(LK_SHARE_NONZERO | LK_WANT_UPGRADE);

Thread 2 wakes up first, and takes exclusive lock:

lk_exclusivecount = 1;
lk_flags = LK_WANT_EXCL | LK_HAVE_EXCL;
thread 3 sleeping on: !(LK_SHARE_NONZERO | LK_WANT_UPGRADE);

Thread 3 wakes up second, and also tries to take exclusive lock:

lk_exclusivecount = 2;  /* !!! big trouble for moose and squirrel */
lk_flags = LK_HAVE_EXCL;


>How-To-Repeat:
      
>Fix:
The fix is to put LK_HAVE_EXCL in the second acquire of the LK_EXCLUSIVE
path: change acquire(LK_WANT_UPGRADE | LK_SHARE_NONZERO) to
acquire(LK_HAS_EXCL | LK_WANT_UPGRADE | LK_SHARE_NONZERO).
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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