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authorLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>2014-07-31 11:30:17 +0800
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2015-01-23 11:33:51 +0100
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smpboot: Add missing get_online_cpus() in smpboot_register_percpu_thread()
The following race exists in the smpboot percpu threads management: CPU0 CPU1 cpu_up(2) get_online_cpus(); smpboot_create_threads(2); smpboot_register_percpu_thread(); for_each_online_cpu(); __smpboot_create_thread(); __cpu_up(2); This results in a missing per cpu thread for the newly onlined cpu2 and in a NULL pointer dereference on a consecutive offline of that cpu. Proctect smpboot_register_percpu_thread() with get_online_cpus() to prevent that. [ tglx: Massaged changelog and removed the change in smpboot_unregister_percpu_thread() because that's an optimization and therefor not stable material. ] Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406777421-12830-1-git-send-email-laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/smpboot.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/smpboot.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/smpboot.c b/kernel/smpboot.c
index f032fb5284e3..40190f28db35 100644
--- a/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -280,6 +280,7 @@ int smpboot_register_percpu_thread(struct smp_hotplug_thread *plug_thread)
unsigned int cpu;
int ret = 0;
+ get_online_cpus();
mutex_lock(&smpboot_threads_lock);
for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
ret = __smpboot_create_thread(plug_thread, cpu);
@@ -292,6 +293,7 @@ int smpboot_register_percpu_thread(struct smp_hotplug_thread *plug_thread)
list_add(&plug_thread->list, &hotplug_threads);
out:
mutex_unlock(&smpboot_threads_lock);
+ put_online_cpus();
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(smpboot_register_percpu_thread);