sched: Fix raciness in runqueue_is_locked()

runqueue_is_locked() is unavoidably racy due to a poor interface design.
It does

	cpu = get_cpu()
	ret = some_perpcu_thing(cpu);
	put_cpu(cpu);
	return ret;

Its return value is unreliable.

Fix.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <200909191855.n8JItiko022148@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index faf4d46..575fb01 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -681,15 +681,9 @@ inline void update_rq_clock(struct rq *rq)
  * This interface allows printk to be called with the runqueue lock
  * held and know whether or not it is OK to wake up the klogd.
  */
-int runqueue_is_locked(void)
+int runqueue_is_locked(int cpu)
 {
-	int cpu = get_cpu();
-	struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
-	int ret;
-
-	ret = spin_is_locked(&rq->lock);
-	put_cpu();
-	return ret;
+	return spin_is_locked(&cpu_rq(cpu)->lock);
 }
 
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