kernel/sched: Fix race with switch handle
The "null out the switch handle and put it back" code in the swap
implementation is a holdover from some defensive coding (not wanting
to break the case where we picked our current thread), but it hides a
subtle SMP race: when that field goes NULL, another CPU that may have
selected that thread (which is to say, our current thread) as its next
to run will be spinning on that to detect when the field goes
non-NULL. So it will get the signal to move on when we revert the
value, when clearly we are still running on the stack!
In practice this was found on x86 which poisons the switch context
such that it crashes instantly.
Instead, be firm about state and always set the switch handle of a
currently running thread to NULL immediately before it starts running:
right before entering arch_switch() and symmetrically on the interrupt
exit path.
Fixes #28105
Signed-off-by: Andy Ross <andrew.j.ross@intel.com>
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