linux-kernel - [tip:sched/core] sched: Add missing rcu protection to wake_up_all_idle

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Message-ID: <tip-fd7de1e8d5b2b2b35e71332fafb899f584597150@git.kernel.org>
Date:	Tue, 9 Dec 2014 02:17:54 -0800
From:	tip-bot for Andy Lutomirski <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	chuansheng.liu@...el.com, peterz@...radead.org,
	luto@...capital.net, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...nel.org
Subject: [tip:sched/core] sched:
  Add missing rcu protection to wake_up_all_idle_cpus

Commit-ID:  fd7de1e8d5b2b2b35e71332fafb899f584597150
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/fd7de1e8d5b2b2b35e71332fafb899f584597150
Author:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
AuthorDate: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 08:13:51 -0800
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 11:44:19 +0100

sched: Add missing rcu protection to wake_up_all_idle_cpus

Locklessly doing is_idle_task(rq->curr) is only okay because of
RCU protection.  The older variant of the broken code checked
rq->curr == rq->idle instead and therefore didn't need RCU.

Fixes: f6be8af1c95d ("sched: Add new API wake_up_if_idle() to wake up the idle cpu")
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Reviewed-by: Chuansheng Liu <chuansheng.liu@...el.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/729365dddca178506dfd0a9451006344cd6808bc.1417277372.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index d44d0c5..88f49bc 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -1628,8 +1628,10 @@ void wake_up_if_idle(int cpu)
 	struct rq *rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
 	unsigned long flags;
 
-	if (!is_idle_task(rq->curr))
-		return;
+	rcu_read_lock();
+
+	if (!is_idle_task(rcu_dereference(rq->curr)))
+		goto out;
 
 	if (set_nr_if_polling(rq->idle)) {
 		trace_sched_wake_idle_without_ipi(cpu);
@@ -1640,6 +1642,9 @@ void wake_up_if_idle(int cpu)
 		/* Else cpu is not in idle, do nothing here */
 		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rq->lock, flags);
 	}
+
+out:
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 
 bool cpus_share_cache(int this_cpu, int that_cpu)
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