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| author | Silas Boyd-Wickizer <sbw@mit.edu> | 2012-08-03 12:33:27 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2012-09-23 07:43:56 -0700 |
| commit | a2db672aa305a045404615e5222ba681bab6cf58 (patch) | |
| tree | 49ac9a38d87e42695f212b730751dfa78cf3a0d4 /arch/x86 | |
| parent | 5d18023294abc22984886bd7185344e0c2be0daf (diff) | |
| download | linux-a2db672aa305a045404615e5222ba681bab6cf58.tar.bz2 | |
Use get_online_cpus to avoid races involving CPU hotplug
If arch/x86/kernel/msr.c is a module, a CPU might offline or online
between the for_each_online_cpu(i) loop and the call to
register_hotcpu_notifier in msr_init or the call to
unregister_hotcpu_notifier in msr_exit. The potential races can lead
to leaks/duplicates, attempts to destroy non-existant devices, or
random pointer dereferences.
For example, in msr_init if:
for_each_online_cpu(i) {
err = msr_device_create(i);
if (err != 0)
goto out_class;
}
<----- CPU offlines
register_hotcpu_notifier(&msr_class_cpu_notifier);
and the CPU never onlines before msr_exit, then the module will never
call msr_device_destroy for the associated CPU.
This fix surrounds for_each_online_cpu and register_hotcpu_notifier or
unregister_hotcpu_notifier with get_online_cpus+put_online_cpus.
Tested on a VM.
Signed-off-by: Silas Boyd-Wickizer <sbw@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/msr.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c b/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c index eb113693f043..a7c5661f8496 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c @@ -257,12 +257,14 @@ static int __init msr_init(void) goto out_chrdev; } msr_class->devnode = msr_devnode; + get_online_cpus(); for_each_online_cpu(i) { err = msr_device_create(i); if (err != 0) goto out_class; } register_hotcpu_notifier(&msr_class_cpu_notifier); + put_online_cpus(); err = 0; goto out; @@ -271,6 +273,7 @@ out_class: i = 0; for_each_online_cpu(i) msr_device_destroy(i); + put_online_cpus(); class_destroy(msr_class); out_chrdev: __unregister_chrdev(MSR_MAJOR, 0, NR_CPUS, "cpu/msr"); @@ -281,11 +284,13 @@ out: static void __exit msr_exit(void) { int cpu = 0; + get_online_cpus(); for_each_online_cpu(cpu) msr_device_destroy(cpu); class_destroy(msr_class); __unregister_chrdev(MSR_MAJOR, 0, NR_CPUS, "cpu/msr"); unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&msr_class_cpu_notifier); + put_online_cpus(); } module_init(msr_init); |