From c9b5a266b103af873abb9ac03bc3d067702c8f4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:17:32 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Cc: athorlton@sgi.com Cc: CAI Qian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1306261303260.4013@ionos.tec.linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c index d067c01..4790037 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c @@ -533,6 +533,13 @@ 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); @@ -773,10 +780,12 @@ 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); } -- 2.7.4