Drivers: hv: hv_fcopy: fix a race condition for SMP guest

We should schedule the 5s "timer work" before starting the data transfer,
otherwise, the data transfer code may finish so fast on another
virtual cpu that when the code(fcopy_write()) trying to cancel the 5s
"timer work" can occasionally fail because the "timer work" may haven't
been scheduled yet and as a result the fcopy process will be aborted
wrongly by fcopy_work_func() in 5s.

Thank Liz Zhang <lizzha@microsoft.com> for the initial investigation
on the bug.

This addresses https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1118123

Tested-by: Liz Zhang <lizzha@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/hv/hv_fcopy.c b/drivers/hv/hv_fcopy.c
index eaaa3d843b8052c4c0d5b513567da720c6cfbe7a..23b2ce294c4ca78ea3f961ee102550e4aeb02632 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/hv/hv_fcopy.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/hv_fcopy.c
@@ -246,8 +246,8 @@ void hv_fcopy_onchannelcallback(void *context)
                /*
                 * Send the information to the user-level daemon.
                 */
-               fcopy_send_data();
                schedule_delayed_work(&fcopy_work, 5*HZ);
+               fcopy_send_data();
                return;
        }
        icmsghdr->icflags = ICMSGHDRFLAG_TRANSACTION | ICMSGHDRFLAG_RESPONSE;