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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2014-03-03 15:13:02 +0530
committerEli Qiao <taget@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-03-04 12:04:04 +0800
commit7a5724a32f6daf73853a064128bbe70fdebc548a (patch)
tree9250c28f39565f1fd095445a1be935d18fd2e472
parent76048e836ff1b1136ca7f770820f99223105c5d8 (diff)
downloadpowerkvm-7a5724a32f6daf73853a064128bbe70fdebc548a.tar.gz
tick: Make oneshot broadcast robust vs. CPU offlining
In periodic mode we remove offline cpus from the broadcast propagation mask. In oneshot mode we fail to do so. This was not a problem so far, but the recent changes to the broadcast propagation introduced a constellation which can result in a NULL pointer dereference. What happens is: CPU0 CPU1 idle() arch_idle() tick_broadcast_oneshot_control(OFF); set cpu1 in tick_broadcast_force_mask if (cpu_offline()) arch_cpu_dead() cpu_dead_cleanup(cpu1) cpu1 tickdevice pointer = NULL broadcast interrupt dereference cpu1 tickdevice pointer -> OOPS We dereference the pointer because cpu1 is still set in tick_broadcast_force_mask and tick_do_broadcast() expects a valid cpumask and therefor lacks any further checks. Remove the cpu from the tick_broadcast_force_mask before we set the tick device pointer to NULL. Also add a sanity check to the oneshot broadcast function, so we can detect such issues w/o crashing the machine. Reported-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: athorlton@sgi.com Cc: CAI Qian <caiqian@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1306261303260.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> (cherry picked from commit c9b5a266b103af873abb9ac03bc3d067702c8f4b) Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c13
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
index 52d4827cf2d4dd..6d3f91631de62c 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
@@ -594,6 +594,13 @@ again:
cpumask_clear(tick_broadcast_force_mask);
/*
+ * Sanity check. Catch the case where we try to broadcast to
+ * offline cpus.
+ */
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!cpumask_subset(tmpmask, cpu_online_mask)))
+ cpumask_and(tmpmask, tmpmask, cpu_online_mask);
+
+ /*
* Wakeup the cpus which have an expired event.
*/
tick_do_broadcast(tmpmask);
@@ -833,10 +840,12 @@ void tick_shutdown_broadcast_oneshot(unsigned int *cpup)
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&tick_broadcast_lock, flags);
/*
- * Clear the broadcast mask flag for the dead cpu, but do not
- * stop the broadcast device!
+ * Clear the broadcast masks for the dead cpu, but do not stop
+ * the broadcast device!
*/
cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, tick_broadcast_oneshot_mask);
+ cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, tick_broadcast_pending_mask);
+ cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, tick_broadcast_force_mask);
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tick_broadcast_lock, flags);
}