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authorGerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>2019-01-09 13:00:03 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-01-31 08:14:35 +0100
commit049c7b068dd15fedfb863bcfbde0241acbbb808f (patch)
treed26a342890bbc30d6d496f8fad2a2bd635e540be /arch
parente0d573a08f234722fe21a5729d2e945b775c5201 (diff)
s390/smp: fix CPU hotplug deadlock with CPU rescan
commit b7cb707c373094ce4008d4a6ac9b6b366ec52da5 upstream. smp_rescan_cpus() is called without the device_hotplug_lock, which can lead to a dedlock when a new CPU is found and immediately set online by a udev rule. This was observed on an older kernel version, where the cpu_hotplug_begin() loop was still present, and it resulted in hanging chcpu and systemd-udev processes. This specific deadlock will not show on current kernels. However, there may be other possible deadlocks, and since smp_rescan_cpus() can still trigger a CPU hotplug operation, the device_hotplug_lock should be held. For reference, this was the deadlock with the old cpu_hotplug_begin() loop: chcpu (rescan) systemd-udevd echo 1 > /sys/../rescan -> smp_rescan_cpus() -> (*) get_online_cpus() (increases refcount) -> smp_add_present_cpu() (new CPU found) -> register_cpu() -> device_add() -> udev "add" event triggered -----------> udev rule sets CPU online -> echo 1 > /sys/.../online -> lock_device_hotplug_sysfs() (this is missing in rescan path) -> device_online() -> (**) device_lock(new CPU dev) -> cpu_up() -> cpu_hotplug_begin() (loops until refcount == 0) -> deadlock with (*) -> bus_probe_device() -> device_attach() -> device_lock(new CPU dev) -> deadlock with (**) Fix this by taking the device_hotplug_lock in the CPU rescan path. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/s390/kernel/smp.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/smp.c b/arch/s390/kernel/smp.c
index 2f8f7d7dd9a8..e5735ab30488 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/smp.c
@@ -1152,7 +1152,11 @@ static ssize_t __ref rescan_store(struct device *dev,
{
int rc;
+ rc = lock_device_hotplug_sysfs();
+ if (rc)
+ return rc;
rc = smp_rescan_cpus();
+ unlock_device_hotplug();
return rc ? rc : count;
}
static DEVICE_ATTR_WO(rescan);