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Date:   Thu, 19 Jul 2018 23:55:38 +0100
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Venkata Narendra Kumar Gutta <vnkgutta@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, tsoni@...eaurora.org,
        ckadabi@...eaurora.org, rishabhb@...eaurora.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, robh@...nel.org, hoeun.ryu@...il.com,
        adobriyan@...il.com, zhizhouzhang@...micro.com,
        suzuki.poulose@....com, mark.rutland@....com, james.morse@....com,
        will.deacon@....com, catalin.marinas@....com,
        Abhimanyu Kapur <abhimany@...eaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ARM64: smp: Fix cpu_up() racing with sys_reboot

On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 03:18:46PM -0700, Venkata Narendra Kumar Gutta wrote:
> Nothing stops a process from hotplugging in a CPU concurrently
> with a sys_reboot() call. In such a situation we could have
> ipi_cpu_stop() mark a cpu as 'offline' and _cpu_up() ignore the
> fact that the CPU is not really offline and call the
> CPU_UP_PREPARE notifier. When this happens stop_machine code will
> complain that the cpu thread already exists and BUG_ON().
> 
> CPU0                      CPU1
> 
>  sys_reboot()
>  kernel_restart()
>  machine_restart()
>  machine_shutdown()
>  smp_send_stop()
>  ...                   ipi_cpu_stop()
> 		       set_cpu_online(1, false)
>                        local_irq_disable()
>                        while(1)
>         <PREEMPT>
>  cpu_up()
>  _cpu_up()
>  if (!cpu_online(1))
>  __cpu_notify(CPU_UP_PREPARE...)
> 
>  cpu_stop_cpu_callback()
>  BUG_ON(stopper->thread)
> 
> This is easily reproducible by hotplugging in and out in a tight
> loop while also rebooting.
> 
> Since the CPU is not really offline and hasn't gone through the
> proper steps to be marked as such, let's mark the CPU as inactive.
> This is just as easily testable as online and avoids any possibility
> of _cpu_up() trying to bring the CPU back online when it never was
> offline to begin with. Based on the similar patchset by for arm
> targets 040c163( "ARM: smp: Fix cpu_up() racing with sys_reboot)"

You really need to use 12 digit commit IDs to refer to commits to
avoid:

$ git log 040c163
fatal: ambiguous argument '040c163': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.

because 7 digits are just too short and given the size of the kernel,
result in conflicting references.

I can find no trace of "040c163" touching arch/arm/kernel/smp.c,
nor can I find a commit with "racing with sys_reboot" touching the
same file.

The commit you reference doesn't seem to be in mainline.

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