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call_function_many: fix list delete vs add race
authorMilton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:27:16 +0000 (13:27 -0600)
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:47:08 +0000 (12:47 -0400)
commit87dbfb3e2ef719eab4b41703d88a5e20daec9cac
tree57bfe69fd50fc7f725b37d411c0eb1ac290aa115
parentb2c9832fb5b4048819b9e6edabc380beff4ed419
call_function_many: fix list delete vs add race

commit e6cd1e07a185d5f9b0aa75e020df02d3c1c44940 upstream.

Peter pointed out there was nothing preventing the list_del_rcu in
smp_call_function_interrupt from running before the list_add_rcu in
smp_call_function_many.

Fix this by not setting refs until we have gotten the lock for the list.
Take advantage of the wmb in list_add_rcu to save an explicit additional
one.

I tried to force this race with a udelay before the lock & list_add and
by mixing all 64 online cpus with just 3 random cpus in the mask, but
was unsuccessful.  Still, inspection shows a valid race, and the fix is
a extension of the existing protection window in the current code.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
kernel/smp.c