linux-kernel - [ 04/13] xen/events: initialize local per-cpu mask for all possible events

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Date:	Mon, 26 Aug 2013 18:08:36 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Subject: [ 04/13] xen/events: initialize local per-cpu mask for all possible events

3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>

commit 84ca7a8e45dafb49cd5ca90a343ba033e2885c17 upstream.

The sizeof() argument in init_evtchn_cpu_bindings() is incorrect
resulting in only the first 64 (or 32 in 32-bit guests) ports having
their bindings being initialized to VCPU 0.

In most cases this does not cause a problem as request_irq() will set
the irq affinity which will set the correct local per-cpu mask.
However, if the request_irq() is called on a VCPU other than 0, there
is a window between the unmasking of the event and the affinity being
set were an event may be lost because it is not locally unmasked on
any VCPU. If request_irq() is called on VCPU 0 then local irqs are
disabled during the window and the race does not occur.

Fix this by initializing all NR_EVENT_CHANNEL bits in the local
per-cpu masks.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/xen/events.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/xen/events.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/events.c
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ static void init_evtchn_cpu_bindings(voi

 	for_each_possible_cpu(i)
 		memset(per_cpu(cpu_evtchn_mask, i),
-		       (i == 0) ? ~0 : 0, sizeof(*per_cpu(cpu_evtchn_mask, i)));
+		       (i == 0) ? ~0 : 0, NR_EVENT_CHANNELS/8);
 }

 static inline void clear_evtchn(int port)

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