linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 1/2] cpuhp: make target_store() a nop when target == state

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Message-Id: <20220526160615.7976-2-pauld@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 26 May 2022 12:06:14 -0400
From:   Phil Auld <pauld@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/2] cpuhp: make target_store() a nop when target == state

writing the current state back in hotplug/target calls cpu_down()
which will set cpu dying even when it isn't and then nothing will
ever clear it. A stress test that reads values and writes them back
for all cpu device files in sysfs will trigger the BUG() in
select_fallback_rq once all cpus are marked as dying.

kernel/cpu.c::target_store()
	...
        if (st->state < target)
                ret = cpu_up(dev->id, target);
        else
                ret = cpu_down(dev->id, target);

cpu_down() -> cpu_set_state()
	 bool bringup = st->state < target;
	 ...
	 if (cpu_dying(cpu) != !bringup)
		set_cpu_dying(cpu, !bringup);

Fix this by letting state==target fall through in the target_store()
conditional.

Signed-off-by: Phil Auld <pauld@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/cpu.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index d0a9aa0b42e8..cdb6ac10ad94 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -2315,7 +2315,7 @@ static ssize_t target_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
 
 	if (st->state < target)
 		ret = cpu_up(dev->id, target);
-	else
+	else if (st->state > target)
 		ret = cpu_down(dev->id, target);
 out:
 	unlock_device_hotplug();
-- 
2.18.0