linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.18 36/39] smpboot: Add missing get_online_cpus() in smpboot_register_percpu

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Message-Id: <20150209083330.474652300@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:	Mon,  9 Feb 2015 16:34:19 +0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.18 36/39] smpboot: Add missing get_online_cpus() in smpboot_register_percpu_thread()

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

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

From: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>

commit 4bee96860a65c3a62d332edac331b3cf936ba3ad upstream.

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@...fujitsu.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406777421-12830-1-git-send-email-laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/smpboot.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -279,6 +279,7 @@ int smpboot_register_percpu_thread(struc
 	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);
@@ -291,6 +292,7 @@ int smpboot_register_percpu_thread(struc
 	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);


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