linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.18 075/124] percpu: acquire pcpu_lock when updating pcpu_nr_empty_pop

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Date:   Thu, 20 Apr 2017 08:35:50 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.18 075/124] percpu: acquire pcpu_lock when updating pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages

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

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From: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com>

commit 320661b08dd6f1746d5c7ab4eb435ec64b97cd45 upstream.

Update to pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages in pcpu_alloc() is currently done
without holding pcpu_lock. This can lead to bad updates to the variable.
Add missing lock calls.

Fixes: b539b87fed37 ("percpu: implmeent pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages and chunk->nr_populated")
Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/percpu.c |    5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/percpu.c
+++ b/mm/percpu.c
@@ -1012,8 +1012,11 @@ area_found:
 		mutex_unlock(&pcpu_alloc_mutex);
 	}
 
-	if (chunk != pcpu_reserved_chunk)
+	if (chunk != pcpu_reserved_chunk) {
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&pcpu_lock, flags);
 		pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages -= occ_pages;
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pcpu_lock, flags);
+	}
 
 	if (pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages < PCPU_EMPTY_POP_PAGES_LOW)
 		pcpu_schedule_balance_work();