linux-kernel - [GIT pull] smp/hotplug fix for 4.14

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Date:   Sun, 22 Oct 2017 12:43:27 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: [GIT pull] smp/hotplug fix for 4.14

Linus,

please pull the latest smp-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git smp-urgent-for-linus

The recent rework of the callback invocation missed to cleanup the
leftovers of the operation, so under certain circumstances a subsequent CPU
hotplug operation accesses stale data and crashes. Clean it up.

Thanks,

	tglx

------------------>
Thomas Gleixner (1):
      cpu/hotplug: Reset node state after operation


 kernel/cpu.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index d851df22f5c5..04892a82f6ac 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -632,6 +632,11 @@ cpuhp_invoke_ap_callback(int cpu, enum cpuhp_state state, bool bringup,
 		__cpuhp_kick_ap(st);
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Clean up the leftovers so the next hotplug operation wont use stale
+	 * data.
+	 */
+	st->node = st->last = NULL;
 	return ret;
 }