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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2013-06-26 12:17:32 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-03-23 21:38:21 -0700
commita191212af8f4895d6a40c9d53fa84e9ae575ecd0 (patch)
tree0725e8ba9a97bb52c09d6fb4cc6ccae57d8d1e35 /kernel
parent68c52c3ef819b289473200e232bb940dbe87fc48 (diff)
tick: Make oneshot broadcast robust vs. CPU offlining
commit c9b5a266b103af873abb9ac03bc3d067702c8f4b upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-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 f681da32a2f..19ee339a1d0 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);
@@ -834,10 +841,12 @@ 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);
}