linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] RAS fix

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Date:   Sat, 18 Jan 2020 19:29:49 +0100
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] RAS fix

Linus,

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

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

   # HEAD: 978370956d2046b19313659ce65ed12d5b996626 x86/mce/therm_throt: Do not access uninitialized therm_work

Fix a thermal throttling race that can result in easy to trigger boot 
crashes on certain Ice Lake platforms.

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
Chuansheng Liu (1):
      x86/mce/therm_throt: Do not access uninitialized therm_work


 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/therm_throt.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/therm_throt.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/therm_throt.c
index b38010b541d6..6c3e1c92f183 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/therm_throt.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mce/therm_throt.c
@@ -467,6 +467,7 @@ static int thermal_throttle_online(unsigned int cpu)
 {
 	struct thermal_state *state = &per_cpu(thermal_state, cpu);
 	struct device *dev = get_cpu_device(cpu);
+	u32 l;
 
 	state->package_throttle.level = PACKAGE_LEVEL;
 	state->core_throttle.level = CORE_LEVEL;
@@ -474,6 +475,10 @@ static int thermal_throttle_online(unsigned int cpu)
 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&state->package_throttle.therm_work, throttle_active_work);
 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&state->core_throttle.therm_work, throttle_active_work);
 
+	/* Unmask the thermal vector after the above workqueues are initialized. */
+	l = apic_read(APIC_LVTTHMR);
+	apic_write(APIC_LVTTHMR, l & ~APIC_LVT_MASKED);
+
 	return thermal_throttle_add_dev(dev, cpu);
 }
 
@@ -722,10 +727,6 @@ void intel_init_thermal(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 	rdmsr(MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE, l, h);
 	wrmsr(MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE, l | MSR_IA32_MISC_ENABLE_TM1, h);
 
-	/* Unmask the thermal vector: */
-	l = apic_read(APIC_LVTTHMR);
-	apic_write(APIC_LVTTHMR, l & ~APIC_LVT_MASKED);
-
 	pr_info_once("CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled (%s)\n",
 		      tm2 ? "TM2" : "TM1");