Commit f5010861 authored by Lai Jiangshan's avatar Lai Jiangshan Committed by Luis Henriques

smpboot: Add missing get_online_cpus() in smpboot_register_percpu_thread()

commit 4bee9686 upstream.

The following race exists in the smpboot percpu threads management:

CPU0	      	   	     CPU1
cpu_up(2)
  get_online_cpus();
  smpboot_create_threads(2);
			     smpboot_register_percpu_thread();
			     for_each_online_cpu();
			       __smpboot_create_thread();
  __cpu_up(2);

This results in a missing per cpu thread for the newly onlined cpu2 and
in a NULL pointer dereference on a consecutive offline of that cpu.

Proctect smpboot_register_percpu_thread() with get_online_cpus() to
prevent that.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog and removed the change in
        smpboot_unregister_percpu_thread() because that's an
        optimization and therefor not stable material. ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406777421-12830-1-git-send-email-laijs@cn.fujitsu.comSigned-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
parent 058f35e3
......@@ -279,6 +279,7 @@ int smpboot_register_percpu_thread(struct smp_hotplug_thread *plug_thread)
unsigned int cpu;
int ret = 0;
get_online_cpus();
mutex_lock(&smpboot_threads_lock);
for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
ret = __smpboot_create_thread(plug_thread, cpu);
......@@ -291,6 +292,7 @@ int smpboot_register_percpu_thread(struct smp_hotplug_thread *plug_thread)
list_add(&plug_thread->list, &hotplug_threads);
out:
mutex_unlock(&smpboot_threads_lock);
put_online_cpus();
return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(smpboot_register_percpu_thread);
......
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