linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] membarrier fix

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Message-ID: <20191002220406.GA50484@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 3 Oct 2019 00:04:06 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] membarrier fix

Linus,

Please pull the latest sched-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git sched-urgent-for-linus

   # HEAD: 73956fc07dd7b25d4a33ab3fdd6247c60d0b237c membarrier: Fix RCU locking bug caused by faulty merge

Fix a merge bug that resulted in broken locking within 
membarrier_private_expedited().

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
Peter Zijlstra (1):
      membarrier: Fix RCU locking bug caused by faulty merge


 kernel/sched/membarrier.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
index a39bed2c784f..168479a7d61b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
@@ -174,7 +174,6 @@ static int membarrier_private_expedited(int flags)
 		 */
 		if (cpu == raw_smp_processor_id())
 			continue;
-		rcu_read_lock();
 		p = rcu_dereference(cpu_rq(cpu)->curr);
 		if (p && p->mm == mm)
 			__cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, tmpmask);