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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2015-09-04 15:45:03 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-09-04 16:54:41 -0700
commit3dd08c0c918f9bf058572ddbf26e7d6fb5674a5c (patch)
treedb82da2bf13515643d5b36cf6f2f0584f1355b97 /kernel
parent5869b5064b0950afc447610c0f5d4134b71d9e94 (diff)
smpboot: make cleanup to mirror setup
The per-cpu kthread cleanup() callback is the mirror of the setup() callback. When the per-cpu kthread is started, it first calls setup() to initialize the resources which are then released by cleanup() when the kthread exits. Now since the introduction of a per-cpu kthread cpumask, the kthreads excluded by the cpumask on boot may happen to be parked immediately after their creation without taking the setup() stage, waiting to be asked to unpark to do so. Then when smpboot_unregister_percpu_thread() is later called, the kthread is stopped without having ever called setup(). But this triggers a bug as the kthread unconditionally calls cleanup() on exit but this doesn't mirror any setup(). Thus the kernel crashes because we try to free resources that haven't been initialized, as in the watchdog case: WATCHDOG disable 0 WATCHDOG disable 1 WATCHDOG disable 2 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) IP: hrtimer_active+0x26/0x60 [...] Call Trace: hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x1c/0x280 hrtimer_cancel+0x1d/0x30 watchdog_disable+0x56/0x70 watchdog_cleanup+0xe/0x10 smpboot_thread_fn+0x23c/0x2c0 kthread+0xf8/0x110 ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70 This bug is currently masked with explicit kthread unparking before kthread_stop() on smpboot_destroy_threads(). This forces a call to setup() and then unpark(). We could fix this by unconditionally calling setup() on kthread entry. But setup() isn't always cheap. In the case of watchdog it launches hrtimer, perf events, etc... So we may as well like to skip it if there are chances the kthread will never be used, as in a reduced cpumask value. So let's simply do a state machine check before calling cleanup() that makes sure setup() has been called before mirroring it. And remove the nasty hack workaround. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/smpboot.c12
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/smpboot.c b/kernel/smpboot.c
index 71aa90b69f8f..60aa858a6a07 100644
--- a/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -113,7 +113,8 @@ static int smpboot_thread_fn(void *data)
if (kthread_should_stop()) {
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
preempt_enable();
- if (ht->cleanup)
+ /* cleanup must mirror setup */
+ if (ht->cleanup && td->status != HP_THREAD_NONE)
ht->cleanup(td->cpu, cpu_online(td->cpu));
kfree(td);
return 0;
@@ -259,15 +260,6 @@ static void smpboot_destroy_threads(struct smp_hotplug_thread *ht)
{
unsigned int cpu;
- /* Unpark any threads that were voluntarily parked. */
- for_each_cpu_not(cpu, ht->cpumask) {
- if (cpu_online(cpu)) {
- struct task_struct *tsk = *per_cpu_ptr(ht->store, cpu);
- if (tsk)
- kthread_unpark(tsk);
- }
- }
-
/* We need to destroy also the parked threads of offline cpus */
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
struct task_struct *tsk = *per_cpu_ptr(ht->store, cpu);