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Peter Zijlstra ee96f47123 task_work: Fix NMI race condition
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  __schedule()
  // disable irqs
      <NMI>
	  task_work_add(current, work, TWA_NMI_CURRENT);
      </NMI>
  // current = next;
  // enable irqs
      <IRQ>
	  task_work_set_notify_irq()
	  test_and_set_tsk_thread_flag(current,
                                       TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME); // wrong task!
      </IRQ>
  // original task skips task work on its next return to user (or exit!)

Fixes: 466e4d801c ("task_work: Add TWA_NMI_CURRENT as an additional notify mode.")
Reported-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250924080118.425949403@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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