The watchdog proc interface causes extensive recursive locking of the cpu
hotplug percpu rwsem, which is deadlock prone.
Replace the get/put_online_cpus() pairs with cpu_hotplug_disable()/enable()
calls for now. Later patches will remove that requirement completely.
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170831073053.437818037@linutronix.de
---
kernel/watchdog.c | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -703,7 +703,7 @@ static int proc_watchdog_common(int whic
int err, old, new;
int *watchdog_param = (int *)table->data;
- get_online_cpus();
+ cpu_hotplug_disable();
mutex_lock(&watchdog_proc_mutex);
/*
@@ -752,7 +752,7 @@ static int proc_watchdog_common(int whic
}
out:
mutex_unlock(&watchdog_proc_mutex);
- put_online_cpus();
+ cpu_hotplug_enable();
return err;
}
@@ -794,7 +794,7 @@ int proc_watchdog_thresh(struct ctl_tabl
{
int err, old, new;
- get_online_cpus();
+ cpu_hotplug_disable();
mutex_lock(&watchdog_proc_mutex);
old = ACCESS_ONCE(watchdog_thresh);
@@ -818,7 +818,7 @@ int proc_watchdog_thresh(struct ctl_tabl
}
out:
mutex_unlock(&watchdog_proc_mutex);
- put_online_cpus();
+ cpu_hotplug_enable();
return err;
}
@@ -833,7 +833,7 @@ int proc_watchdog_cpumask(struct ctl_tab
{
int err;
- get_online_cpus();
+ cpu_hotplug_disable();
mutex_lock(&watchdog_proc_mutex);
err = proc_do_large_bitmap(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
@@ -856,7 +856,7 @@ int proc_watchdog_cpumask(struct ctl_tab
}
mutex_unlock(&watchdog_proc_mutex);
- put_online_cpus();
+ cpu_hotplug_enable();
return err;
}