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2014-03-30AUDIT: Allow login in non-init namespacesEric Paris1-1/+11
It its possible to configure your PAM stack to refuse login if audit messages (about the login) were unable to be sent. This is common in many distros and thus normal configuration of many containers. The PAM modules determine if audit is enabled/disabled in the kernel based on the return value from sending an audit message on the netlink socket. If userspace gets back ECONNREFUSED it believes audit is disabled in the kernel. If it gets any other error else it refuses to let the login proceed. Just about ever since the introduction of namespaces the kernel audit subsystem has returned EPERM if the task sending a message was not in the init user or pid namespace. So many forms of containers have never worked if audit was enabled in the kernel. BUT if the container was not in net_init then the kernel network code would send ECONNREFUSED (instead of the audit code sending EPERM). Thus by pure accident/dumb luck/bug if an admin configured the PAM stack to reject all logins that didn't talk to audit, but then ran the login untility in the non-init_net namespace, it would work!! Clearly this was a bug, but it is a bug some people expected. With the introduction of network namespace support in 3.14-rc1 the two bugs stopped cancelling each other out. Now, containers in the non-init_net namespace refused to let users log in (just like PAM was configfured!) Obviously some people were not happy that what used to let users log in, now didn't! This fix is kinda hacky. We return ECONNREFUSED for all non-init relevant namespaces. That means that not only will the old broken non-init_net setups continue to work, now the broken non-init_pid or non-init_user setups will 'work'. They don't really work, since audit isn't logging things. But it's what most users want. In 3.15 we should have patches to support not only the non-init_net (3.14) namespace but also the non-init_pid and non-init_user namespace. So all will be right in the world. This just opens the doors wide open on 3.14 and hopefully makes users happy, if not the audit system... Reported-by: Andre Tomt <andre@tomt.net> Reported-by: Adam Richter <adam_richter2004@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-03-28time: Revert to calling clock_was_set_delayed() while in irq contextJohn Stultz1-1/+2
In commit 47a1b796306356f35 ("tick/timekeeping: Call update_wall_time outside the jiffies lock"), we moved to calling clock_was_set() due to the fact that we were no longer holding the timekeeping or jiffies lock. However, there is still the problem that clock_was_set() triggers an IPI, which cannot be done from the timer's hard irq context, and will generate WARN_ON warnings. Apparently in my earlier testing, I'm guessing I didn't bump the dmesg log level, so I somehow missed the WARN_ONs. Thus we need to revert back to calling clock_was_set_delayed(). Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1395963049-11923-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-03-26Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v3.14-rc7-v2' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2/+25
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt: "While on my flight to Linux Collaboration Summit, I was working on my slides for the event trigger tutorial. I booted a 3.14-rc7 kernel to perform what I wanted to teach and cut and paste it into my slides. When I tried the traceon event trigger with a condition attached to it (turns tracing on only if a field of the trigger event matches a condition set by the user), nothing happened. Tracing would not turn on. I stopped working on my presentation in order to find what was wrong. It ended up being the way trace event triggers work when they have conditions. Instead of copying the fields, the condition code just looks at the fields that were copied into the ring buffer. This works great, unless tracing is off. That's because when the event is reserved on the ring buffer, the ring buffer returns a NULL pointer, this tells the tracing code that the ring buffer is disabled. This ends up being a problem for the traceon trigger if it is using this information to check its condition. Luckily the code that checks if tracing is on returns the ring buffer to use (because the ring buffer is determined by the event file also passed to that field). I was able to easily solve this bug by checking in that helper function if the returned ring buffer entry is NULL, and if so, also check the file flag if it has a trace event trigger condition, and if so, to pass back a temp ring buffer to use. This will allow the trace event trigger condition to still test the event fields, but nothing will be recorded" * tag 'trace-fixes-v3.14-rc7-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: tracing: Fix traceon trigger condition to actually turn tracing on
2014-03-25tracing: Fix traceon trigger condition to actually turn tracing onSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)1-2/+25
While working on my tutorial for 2014 Linux Collaboration Summit I found that the traceon trigger did not work when conditions were used. The other triggers worked fine though. Looking into it, it is because of the way the triggers use the ring buffer to store the fields it will use for the condition. But if tracing is off, nothing is stored in the buffer, and the tracepoint exits before calling the trigger to test the condition. This is fine for all the triggers that only work when tracing is on, but for traceon trigger that is to work when tracing is off, nothing happens. The fix is simple, just use a temp ring buffer to record the event if tracing is off and the event has a trace event conditional trigger enabled. The rest of the tracepoint code will work just fine, but the tracepoint wont be recorded in the other buffers. Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-03-20futex: revert back to the explicit waiter counting codeLinus Torvalds1-10/+43
Srikar Dronamraju reports that commit b0c29f79ecea ("futexes: Avoid taking the hb->lock if there's nothing to wake up") causes java threads getting stuck on futexes when runing specjbb on a power7 numa box. The cause appears to be that the powerpc spinlocks aren't using the same ticket lock model that we use on x86 (and other) architectures, which in turn result in the "spin_is_locked()" test in hb_waiters_pending() occasionally reporting an unlocked spinlock even when there are pending waiters. So this reinstates Davidlohr Bueso's original explicit waiter counting code, which I had convinced Davidlohr to drop in favor of figuring out the pending waiters by just using the existing state of the spinlock and the wait queue. Reported-and-tested-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Original-code-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-03-20Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v3.14-rc7' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-11/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull trace fix from Steven Rostedt: "Vaibhav Nagarnaik discovered that since 3.10 a clean-up patch made the array index in the trace event format bogus. He supplied an elegant solution that uses __stringify() and also removes the need for the event_storage and event_storage_mutex and also cuts off a few K of overhead from the trace events" * tag 'trace-fixes-v3.14-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: tracing: Fix array size mismatch in format string
2014-03-20tracing: Fix array size mismatch in format stringVaibhav Nagarnaik2-11/+2
In event format strings, the array size is reported in two locations. One in array subscript and then via the "size:" attribute. The values reported there have a mismatch. For e.g., in sched:sched_switch the prev_comm and next_comm character arrays have subscript values as [32] where as the actual field size is 16. name: sched_switch ID: 301 format: field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2; signed:0; field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1; signed:0; field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1;signed:0; field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; signed:1; field:char prev_comm[32]; offset:8; size:16; signed:1; field:pid_t prev_pid; offset:24; size:4; signed:1; field:int prev_prio; offset:28; size:4; signed:1; field:long prev_state; offset:32; size:8; signed:1; field:char next_comm[32]; offset:40; size:16; signed:1; field:pid_t next_pid; offset:56; size:4; signed:1; field:int next_prio; offset:60; size:4; signed:1; After bisection, the following commit was blamed: 92edca0 tracing: Use direct field, type and system names This commit removes the duplication of strings for field->name and field->type assuming that all the strings passed in __trace_define_field() are immutable. This is not true for arrays, where the type string is created in event_storage variable and field->type for all array fields points to event_storage. Use __stringify() to create a string constant for the type string. Also, get rid of event_storage and event_storage_mutex that are not needed anymore. also, an added benefit is that this reduces the overhead of events a bit more: text data bss dec hex filename 8424787 2036472 1302528 11763787 b3804b vmlinux 8420814 2036408 1302528 11759750 b37086 vmlinux.patched Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392349908-29685-1-git-send-email-vnagarnaik@google.com Cc: Laurent Chavey <chavey@google.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.10+ Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-03-19Merge branch 'for-3.14-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-4/+7
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup fix from Tejun Heo: "One really late cgroup patch to fix error path in create_css(). Hitting this bug would be pretty rare but still possible and it gets delayed we'd need to backport it through -stable anyway. It only updates error path in create_css() and has low chance of new breakages" * 'for-3.14-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: fix a failure path in create_css()
2014-03-18cgroup: fix a failure path in create_css()Li Zefan1-4/+7
If online_css() fails, we should remove cgroup files belonging to css->ss. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2014-03-16Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds3-3/+12
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Three small fixes" * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/clock: Prevent tracing recursion in sched_clock_cpu() stop_machine: Fix^2 race between stop_two_cpus() and stop_cpus() sched/deadline: Deny unprivileged users to set/change SCHED_DEADLINE policy
2014-03-11Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds3-19/+24
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace Pull audit namespace fixes from Eric Biederman: "Starting with 3.14-rc1 the audit code is faulty (think oopses and races) with respect to how it computes the network namespace of which socket to reply to, and I happened to notice by chance when reading through the code. My testing and the automated build bots don't find any problems with these fixes" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: audit: Update kdoc for audit_send_reply and audit_list_rules_send audit: Send replies in the proper network namespace. audit: Use struct net not pid_t to remember the network namespce to reply in
2014-03-11sched/clock: Prevent tracing recursion in sched_clock_cpu()Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao1-2/+2
Prevent tracing of preempt_disable/enable() in sched_clock_cpu(). When CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT is enabled, preempt_disable/enable() are traced and this causes trace_clock() users (and probably others) to go into an infinite recursion. Systems with a stable sched_clock() are not affected. This problem is similar to that fixed by upstream commit 95ef1e52922 ("KVM guest: prevent tracing recursion with kvmclock"). Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394083528.4524.3.camel@nexus Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-03-11stop_machine: Fix^2 race between stop_two_cpus() and stop_cpus()Peter Zijlstra1-1/+1
We must use smp_call_function_single(.wait=1) for the irq_cpu_stop_queue_work() to ensure the queueing is actually done under stop_cpus_lock. Without this we could have dropped the lock by the time we do the queueing and get the race we tried to fix. Fixes: 7053ea1a34fa ("stop_machine: Fix race between stop_two_cpus() and stop_cpus()") Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140228123905.GK3104@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-03-11sched/deadline: Deny unprivileged users to set/change SCHED_DEADLINE policyJuri Lelli1-0/+9
Deny the use of SCHED_DEADLINE policy to unprivileged users. Even if root users can set the policy for normal users, we don't want the latter to be able to change their parameters (safest behavior). Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393844961-18097-1-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-03-10mm: fix GFP_THISNODE callers and clarifyJohannes Weiner1-2/+2
GFP_THISNODE is for callers that implement their own clever fallback to remote nodes. It restricts the allocation to the specified node and does not invoke reclaim, assuming that the caller will take care of it when the fallback fails, e.g. through a subsequent allocation request without GFP_THISNODE set. However, many current GFP_THISNODE users only want the node exclusive aspect of the flag, without actually implementing their own fallback or triggering reclaim if necessary. This results in things like page migration failing prematurely even when there is easily reclaimable memory available, unless kswapd happens to be running already or a concurrent allocation attempt triggers the necessary reclaim. Convert all callsites that don't implement their own fallback strategy to __GFP_THISNODE. This restricts the allocation a single node too, but at the same time allows the allocator to enter the slowpath, wake kswapd, and invoke direct reclaim if necessary, to make the allocation happen when memory is full. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-03-08audit: Update kdoc for audit_send_reply and audit_list_rules_sendEric W. Biederman2-2/+2
The kbuild test robot reported: > tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace.git for-next > head: 6f285b19d09f72e801525f5eea1bdad22e559bf0 > commit: 6f285b19d09f72e801525f5eea1bdad22e559bf0 [2/2] audit: Send replies in the proper network namespace. > reproduce: make htmldocs > > >> Warning(kernel/audit.c:575): No description found for parameter 'request_skb' > >> Warning(kernel/audit.c:575): Excess function parameter 'portid' description in 'audit_send_reply' > >> Warning(kernel/auditfilter.c:1074): No description found for parameter 'request_skb' > >> Warning(kernel/auditfilter.c:1074): Excess function parameter 'portid' description in 'audit_list_rules_s Which was caused by my failure to update the kdoc annotations when I updated the functions. Fix that small oversight now. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2014-03-08Merge branch 'for-3.14-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-7/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo: "Two cpuset locking fixes from Li. Both tagged for -stable" * 'for-3.14-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cpuset: fix a race condition in __cpuset_node_allowed_softwall() cpuset: fix a locking issue in cpuset_migrate_mm()
2014-03-07Merge tag 'trace-fixes-v3.14-rc5' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-1/+16
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing fix from Steven Rostedt: "In the past, I've had lots of reports about trace events not working. Developers would say they put a trace_printk() before and after the trace event but when they enable it (and the trace event said it was enabled) they would see the trace_printks but not the trace event. I was not able to reproduce this, but that's because I wasn't looking at the right location. Recently, another bug came up that showed the issue. If your kernel supports signed modules but allows for non-signed modules to be loaded, then when one is, the kernel will silently set the MODULE_FORCED taint on the module. Although, this taint happens without the need for insmod --force or anything of the kind, it labels the module with that taint anyway. If this tainted module has tracepoints, the tracepoints will be ignored because of the MODULE_FORCED taint. But no error message will be displayed. Worse yet, the event infrastructure will still be created letting users enable the trace event represented by the tracepoint, although that event will never actually be enabled. This is because the tracepoint infrastructure allows for non-existing tracepoints to be enabled for new modules to arrive and have their tracepoints set. Although there are several things wrong with the above, this change only addresses the creation of the trace event files for tracepoints that are not created when a module is loaded and is tainted. This change will print an error message about the module being tainted and not the trace events will not be created, and it does not create the trace event infrastructure" * tag 'trace-fixes-v3.14-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: tracing: Do not add event files for modules that fail tracepoints
2014-03-07Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-2/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull irq fixes from Thomas Gleixner: - a bugfix for a long standing waitqueue race - a trivial fix for a missing include * 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: genirq: Include missing header file in irqdomain.c genirq: Remove racy waitqueue_active check
2014-03-03tracing: Do not add event files for modules that fail tracepointsSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)2-1/+16
If a module fails to add its tracepoints due to module tainting, do not create the module event infrastructure in the debugfs directory. As the events will not work and worse yet, they will silently fail, making the user wonder why the events they enable do not display anything. Having a warning on module load and the events not visible to the users will make the cause of the problem much clearer. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140227154923.265882695@goodmis.org Fixes: 6d723736e472 "tracing/events: add support for modules to TRACE_EVENT" Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.31+ Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2014-03-03Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds4-10/+20
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Misc fixes, most of them SCHED_DEADLINE fallout" * 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/deadline: Prevent rt_time growth to infinity sched/deadline: Switch CPU's presence test order sched/deadline: Cleanup RT leftovers from {inc/dec}_dl_migration sched: Fix double normalization of vruntime
2014-03-02Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-6/+6
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Misc fixes, most of them on the tooling side" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf tools: Fix strict alias issue for find_first_bit perf tools: fix BFD detection on opensuse perf: Fix hotplug splat perf/x86: Fix event scheduling perf symbols: Destroy unused symsrcs perf annotate: Check availability of annotate when processing samples
2014-02-28audit: Send replies in the proper network namespace.Eric W. Biederman2-13/+15
In perverse cases of file descriptor passing the current network namespace of a process and the network namespace of a socket used by that socket may differ. Therefore use the network namespace of the appropiate socket to ensure replies always go to the appropiate socket. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2014-02-28audit: Use struct net not pid_t to remember the network namespce to reply inEric W. Biederman3-6/+9
In struct audit_netlink_list and audit_reply add a reference to the network namespace of the caller and remove the userspace pid of the caller. This cleanly remembers the callers network namespace, and removes a huge class of races and nasty failure modes that can occur when attempting to relook up the callers network namespace from a pid_t (including the caller's network namespace changing, pid wraparound, and the pid simply not being present). Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2014-02-27Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-2/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs Pull filesystem fixes from Jan Kara: "Notification, writeback, udf, quota fixes The notification patches are (with one exception) a fallout of my fsnotify rework which went into -rc1 (I've extented LTP to cover these cornercases to avoid similar breakage in future). The UDF patch is a nasty data corruption Al has recently reported, the revert of the writeback patch is due to possibility of violating sync(2) guarantees, and a quota bug can lead to corruption of quota files in ocfs2" * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: fsnotify: Allocate overflow events with proper type fanotify: Handle overflow in case of permission events fsnotify: Fix detection whether overflow event is queued Revert "writeback: do not sync data dirtied after sync start" quota: Fix race between dqput() and dquot_scan_active() udf: Fix data corruption on file type conversion inotify: Fix reporting of cookies for inotify events
2014-02-27cpuset: fix a race condition in __cpuset_node_allowed_softwall()Li Zefan1-1/+1
It's not safe to access task's cpuset after releasing task_lock(). Holding callback_mutex won't help. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2014-02-27cpuset: fix a locking issue in cpuset_migrate_mm()Li Zefan1-6/+2
I can trigger a lockdep warning: # mount -t cgroup -o cpuset xxx /cgroup # mkdir /cgroup/cpuset # mkdir /cgroup/tmp # echo 0 > /cgroup/tmp/cpuset.cpus # echo 0 > /cgroup/tmp/cpuset.mems # echo 1 > /cgroup/tmp/cpuset.memory_migrate # echo $$ > /cgroup/tmp/tasks # echo 1 > /cgruop/tmp/cpuset.mems =============================== [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ] 3.14.0-rc1-0.1-default+ #32 Not tainted ------------------------------- include/linux/cgroup.h:682 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage! ... [<ffffffff81582174>] dump_stack+0x72/0x86 [<ffffffff810b8f01>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x101/0x140 [<ffffffff81105ba1>] cpuset_migrate_mm+0xb1/0xe0 ... We used to hold cgroup_mutex when calling cpuset_migrate_mm(), but now we hold cpuset_mutex, which causes task_css() to complain. This is not a false-positive but a real issue. Holding cpuset_mutex won't prevent a task from migrating to another cpuset, and it won't prevent the original task->cgroup from destroying during this change. Fixes: 5d21cc2db040 (cpuset: replace cgroup_mutex locking with cpuset internal locking) Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.9+ Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Sigend-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2014-02-27genirq: Include missing header file in irqdomain.cRashika Kheria1-0/+1
Include appropriate header file include/linux/of_irq.h in kernel/irq/irqdomain.c because it contains prototype definition of function define in kernel/irq/irqdomain.c. This eliminates the following warning in kernel/irq/irqdomain.c: kernel/irq/irqdomain.c:468:14: warning: no previous prototype for ‘irq_create_of_mapping’ [-Wmissing-prototypes] Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/eb89aebea7ff1a46122918ac389ebecf8248be9a.1393493276.git.rashika.kheria@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-27perf: Fix hotplug splatPeter Zijlstra1-6/+6
Drew Richardson reported that he could make the kernel go *boom* when hotplugging while having perf events active. It turned out that when you have a group event, the code in __perf_event_exit_context() fails to remove the group siblings from the context. We then proceed with destroying and freeing the event, and when you re-plug the CPU and try and add another event to that CPU, things go *boom* because you've still got dead entries there. Reported-by: Drew Richardson <drew.richardson@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-k6v5wundvusvcseqj1si0oz0@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-27sched/deadline: Prevent rt_time growth to infinityJuri Lelli2-2/+14
Kirill Tkhai noted: Since deadline tasks share rt bandwidth, we must care about bandwidth timer set. Otherwise rt_time may grow up to infinity in update_curr_dl(), if there are no other available RT tasks on top level bandwidth. RT task were in fact throttled right after they got enqueued, and never executed again (rt_time never again went below rt_runtime). Peter then proposed to accrue DL execution on rt_time only when rt timer is active, and proposed a patch (this patch is a slight modification of that) to implement that behavior. While this solves Kirill problem, it has a drawback. Indeed, Kirill noted again: It looks we may get into a situation, when all CPU time is shared between RT and DL tasks: rt_runtime = n rt_period = 2n | RT working, DL sleeping | DL working, RT sleeping | ----------------------------------------------------------- | (1) duration = n | (2) duration = n | (repeat) |--------------------------|------------------------------| | (rt_bw timer is running) | (rt_bw timer is not running) | No time for fair tasks at all. While this can happen during the first period, if rq is always backlogged, RT tasks won't have the opportunity to execute anymore: rt_time reached rt_runtime during (1), suppose after (2) RT is enqueued back, it gets throttled since rt timer didn't fire, replenishment is from now on eaten up by DL tasks that accrue their execution on rt_time (while rt timer is active - we have an RT task waiting for replenishment). FAIR tasks are not touched after this first period. Ok, this is not ideal, and the situation is even worse! What above (the nice case), practically never happens in reality, where your rt timer is not aligned to tasks periods, tasks are in general not periodic, etc.. Long story short, you always risk to overload your system. This patch is based on Peter's idea, but exploits an additional fact: if you don't have RT tasks enqueued, it makes little sense to continue incrementing rt_time once you reached the upper limit (DL tasks have their own mechanism for throttling). This cures both problems: - no matter how many DL instances in the past, you'll have an rt_time slightly above rt_runtime when an RT task is enqueued, and from that point on (after the first replenishment), the task will normally execute; - you can still eat up all bandwidth during the first period, but not anymore after that, remember that DL execution will increment rt_time till the upper limit is reached. The situation is still not perfect! But, we have a simple solution for now, that limits how much you can jeopardize your system, as we keep working towards the right answer: RT groups scheduled using deadline servers. Reported-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140225151515.617714e2f2cd6c558531ba61@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-27sched/deadline: Switch CPU's presence test orderJuri Lelli1-2/+2
Commit 82b9580 ("sched/deadline: Test for CPU's presence explicitly") changed how we check if a CPU returned by cpudeadline machinery is valid. But, we don't want to call cpu_present() if best_cpu is equal to -1. So, switch the order of tests inside WARN_ON(). Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393238832-9100-1-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-27sched/deadline: Cleanup RT leftovers from {inc/dec}_dl_migrationKirill Tkhai1-2/+0
In deadline class we do not have group scheduling. So, let's remove unnecessary X = X; equations. Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393343543.4089.5.camel@tkhai Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-27sched: Fix double normalization of vruntimeGeorge McCollister1-4/+4
dequeue_entity() is called when p->on_rq and sets se->on_rq = 0 which appears to guarentee that the !se->on_rq condition is met. If the task has done set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE) without schedule() the second condition will be met and vruntime will be incorrectly adjusted twice. In certain cases this can result in the task's vruntime never increasing past the vruntime of other tasks on the CFS' run queue, starving them of CPU time. This patch changes switched_from_fair() to use !p->on_rq instead of !se->on_rq. I'm able to cause a task with a priority of 120 to starve all other tasks with the same priority on an ARM platform running 3.2.51-rt72 PREEMPT RT by writing one character at time to a serial tty (16550 UART) in a tight loop. I'm also able to verify making this change corrects the problem on that platform and kernel version. Signed-off-by: George McCollister <george.mccollister@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392767811-28916-1-git-send-email-george.mccollister@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-27genirq: Remove racy waitqueue_active checkChuansheng Liu1-2/+1
We hit one rare case below: T1 calling disable_irq(), but hanging at synchronize_irq() always; The corresponding irq thread is in sleeping state; And all CPUs are in idle state; After analysis, we found there is one possible scenerio which causes T1 is waiting there forever: CPU0 CPU1 synchronize_irq() wait_event() spin_lock() atomic_dec_and_test(&threads_active) insert the __wait into queue spin_unlock() if(waitqueue_active) atomic_read(&threads_active) wake_up() Here after inserted the __wait into queue on CPU0, and before test if queue is empty on CPU1, there is no barrier, it maybe cause it is not visible for CPU1 immediately, although CPU0 has updated the queue list. It is similar for CPU0 atomic_read() threads_active also. So we'd need one smp_mb() before waitqueue_active.that, but removing the waitqueue_active() check solves it as wel l and it makes things simple and clear. Signed-off-by: Chuansheng Liu <chuansheng.liu@intel.com> Cc: Xiaoming Wang <xiaoming.wang@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393212590-32543-1-git-send-email-chuansheng.liu@intel.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-23Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-17/+29
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timer fix from Thomas Gleixner: "Serialize the registration of a new sched_clock in the currently ARM only generic sched_clock facilty to avoid sched_clock havoc" * 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched_clock: Prevent callers from seeing half-updated data
2014-02-21sched/deadline: Remove useless dl_nr_totalKirill Tkhai2-4/+1
In deadline class we do not have group scheduling like in RT. dl_nr_total is the same as dl_nr_running. So, one of them should be removed. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/368631392675853@web20h.yandex.ru Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-21sched/deadline: Test for CPU's presence explicitlyBoris Ostrovsky1-3/+3
A hot-removed CPU may have ID that is numerically larger than the number of existing CPUs in the system (e.g. we can unplug CPU 4 from a system that has CPUs 0, 1 and 4). Thus the WARN_ONs should check whether the CPU in question is currently present, not whether its ID value is less than num_present_cpus(). Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392646353-1874-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-21sched: Add 'flags' argument to sched_{set,get}attr() syscallsPeter Zijlstra1-5/+6
Because of a recent syscall design debate; its deemed appropriate for each syscall to have a flags argument for future extension; without immediately requiring new syscalls. Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140214161929.GL27965@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-21sched: Fix information leak in sys_sched_getattr()Vegard Nossum1-1/+1
We're copying the on-stack structure to userspace, but forgot to give the right number of bytes to copy. This allows the calling process to obtain up to PAGE_SIZE bytes from the stack (and possibly adjacent kernel memory). This fix copies only as much as we actually have on the stack (attr->size defaults to the size of the struct) and leaves the rest of the userspace-provided buffer untouched. Found using kmemcheck + trinity. Fixes: d50dde5a10f30 ("sched: Add new scheduler syscalls to support an extended scheduling parameters ABI") Cc: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392585857-10725-1-git-send-email-vegard.nossum@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-21sched,numa: add cond_resched to task_numa_workRik van Riel1-0/+2
Normally task_numa_work scans over a fairly small amount of memory, but it is possible to run into a large unpopulated part of virtual memory, with no pages mapped. In that case, task_numa_work can run for a while, and it may make sense to reschedule as required. Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reported-by: Xing Gang <gang.xing@hp.com> Tested-by: Chegu Vinod <chegu_vinod@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392761566-24834-2-git-send-email-riel@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-21sched/core: Make dl_b->lock IRQ safeJuri Lelli1-4/+6
Fix this lockdep warning: [ 44.804600] ========================================================= [ 44.805746] [ INFO: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected ] [ 44.805746] 3.14.0-rc2-test+ #14 Not tainted [ 44.805746] --------------------------------------------------------- [ 44.805746] bash/3674 just changed the state of lock: [ 44.805746] (&dl_b->lock){+.....}, at: [<ffffffff8106ad15>] sched_rt_handler+0x132/0x248 [ 44.805746] but this lock was taken by another, HARDIRQ-safe lock in the past: [ 44.805746] (&rq->lock){-.-.-.} and interrupts could create inverse lock ordering between them. [ 44.805746] [ 44.805746] other info that might help us debug this: [ 44.805746] Possible interrupt unsafe locking scenario: [ 44.805746] [ 44.805746] CPU0 CPU1 [ 44.805746] ---- ---- [ 44.805746] lock(&dl_b->lock); [ 44.805746] local_irq_disable(); [ 44.805746] lock(&rq->lock); [ 44.805746] lock(&dl_b->lock); [ 44.805746] <Interrupt> [ 44.805746] lock(&rq->lock); by making dl_b->lock acquiring always IRQ safe. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392107067-19907-3-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-21sched/core: Fix sched_rt_global_validateJuri Lelli1-1/+2
Don't compare sysctl_sched_rt_runtime against sysctl_sched_rt_period if the former is equal to RUNTIME_INF, otherwise disabling -rt bandwidth management (with CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED=n) fails. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392107067-19907-2-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-21sched/deadline: Fix overflow to handle period==0 and deadline!=0Steven Rostedt1-1/+1
While debugging the crash with the bad nr_running accounting, I hit another bug where, after running my sched deadline test, I was getting failures to take a CPU offline. It was giving me a -EBUSY error. Adding a bunch of trace_printk()s around, I found that the cpu notifier that called sched_cpu_inactive() was returning a failure. The overflow value was coming up negative? Talking this over with Juri, the problem is that the total_bw update was suppose to be made by dl_overflow() which, during my tests, seemed to not be called. Adding more trace_printk()s, it wasn't that it wasn't called, but it exited out right away with the check of new_bw being equal to p->dl.dl_bw. The new_bw calculates the ratio between period and runtime. The bug is that if you set a deadline, you do not need to set a period if you plan on the period being equal to the deadline. That is, if period is zero and deadline is not, then the system call should set the period to be equal to the deadline. This is done elsewhere in the code. The fix is easy, check if period is set, and if it is not, then use the deadline. Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140219135335.7e74abd4@gandalf.local.home Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-21sched/deadline: Fix bad accounting of nr_runningJuri Lelli1-4/+2
Rostedt writes: My test suite was locking up hard when enabling mmiotracer. This was due to the mmiotracer placing all but one CPU offline. I found this out when I was able to reproduce the bug with just my stress-cpu-hotplug test. This bug baffled me because it would not always trigger, and would only trigger on the first run after boot up. The stress-cpu-hotplug test would crash hard the first run, or never crash at all. But a new reboot may cause it to crash on the first run again. I spent all week bisecting this, as I couldn't find a consistent reproducer. I finally narrowed it down to the sched deadline patches, and even more peculiar, to the commit that added the sched deadline boot up self test to the latency tracer. Then it dawned on me to what the bug was. All it took was to run a task under sched deadline to screw up the CPU hot plugging. This explained why it would lock up only on the first run of the stress-cpu-hotplug test. The bug happened when the boot up self test of the schedule latency tracer would test a deadline task. The deadline task would corrupt something that would cause CPU hotplug to fail. If it didn't corrupt it, the stress test would always work (there's no other sched deadline tasks that would run to cause problems). If it did corrupt on boot up, the first test would lockup hard. I proved this theory by running my deadline test program on another box, and then run the stress-cpu-hotplug test, and it would now consistently lock up. I could run stress-cpu-hotplug over and over with no problem, but once I ran the deadline test, the next run of the stress-cpu-hotplug would lock hard. After adding lots of tracing to the code, I found the cause. The function tracer showed that migrate_tasks() was stuck in an infinite loop, where rq->nr_running never equaled 1 to break out of it. When I added a trace_printk() to see what that number was, it was 335 and never decrementing! Looking at the deadline code I found: static void __dequeue_task_dl(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags) { dequeue_dl_entity(&p->dl); dequeue_pushable_dl_task(rq, p); } static void dequeue_task_dl(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *p, int flags) { update_curr_dl(rq); __dequeue_task_dl(rq, p, flags); dec_nr_running(rq); } And this: if (dl_runtime_exceeded(rq, dl_se)) { __dequeue_task_dl(rq, curr, 0); if (likely(start_dl_timer(dl_se, curr->dl.dl_boosted))) dl_se->dl_throttled = 1; else enqueue_task_dl(rq, curr, ENQUEUE_REPLENISH); if (!is_leftmost(curr, &rq->dl)) resched_task(curr); } Notice how we call __dequeue_task_dl() and in the else case we call enqueue_task_dl()? Also notice that dequeue_task_dl() has underscores where enqueue_task_dl() does not. The enqueue_task_dl() calls inc_nr_running(rq), but __dequeue_task_dl() does not. This is where we get nr_running out of sync. [snip] Another point where nr_running can get out of sync is when the dl_timer fires: dl_se->dl_throttled = 0; if (p->on_rq) { enqueue_task_dl(rq, p, ENQUEUE_REPLENISH); if (task_has_dl_policy(rq->curr)) check_preempt_curr_dl(rq, p, 0); else resched_task(rq->curr); This patch does two things: - correctly accounts for throttled tasks (that are now considered !running); - fixes the bug, updating nr_running from {inc,dec}_dl_tasks(), since we risk to update it twice in some situations (e.g., a task is dequeued while it has exceeded its budget). Cc: mingo@redhat.com Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392884379-13744-1-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-20Merge branch 'for-3.14-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-28/+33
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo: "Quite a few fixes this time. Three locking fixes, all marked for -stable. A couple error path fixes and some misc fixes. Hugh found a bug in memcg offlining sequence and we thought we could fix that from cgroup core side but that turned out to be insufficient and got reverted. A different fix has been applied to -mm" * 'for-3.14-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: update cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists() to grab siglock Revert "cgroup: use an ordered workqueue for cgroup destruction" cgroup: protect modifications to cgroup_idr with cgroup_mutex cgroup: fix locking in cgroup_cfts_commit() cgroup: fix error return from cgroup_create() cgroup: fix error return value in cgroup_mount() cgroup: use an ordered workqueue for cgroup destruction nfs: include xattr.h from fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c cpuset: update MAINTAINERS entry arm, pm, vmpressure: add missing slab.h includes
2014-02-20Merge branch 'for-3.14-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+7
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq Pull workqueue fixes from Tejun Heo: "Two workqueue fixes. One for an unlikely but possible critical bug during kworker shutdown and the other to make lockdep names a bit more descriptive" * 'for-3.14-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: ensure @task is valid across kthread_stop() workqueue: add args to workqueue lockdep name
2014-02-20user_namespace.c: Remove duplicated word in commentBrian Campbell1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Brian Campbell <brian.campbell@editshare.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-02-19sched_clock: Prevent callers from seeing half-updated dataStephen Boyd1-17/+29
The generic sched_clock registration function was previously done lockless, due to the fact that it was expected to be called only once. However, now there are systems that may register multiple sched_clock sources, for which the lack of locking has casued problems: If two sched_clock sources are registered we may end up in a situation where a call to sched_clock() may be accessing the epoch cycle count for the old counter and the cycle count for the new counter. This can lead to confusing results where sched_clock() values jump and then are reset to 0 (due to the way the registration function forces the epoch_ns to be 0). Fix this by reorganizing the registration function to hold the seqlock for as short a time as possible while we update the clock_data structure for a new counter. We also put any accumulated time into epoch_ns instead of resetting the time to 0 so that the clock doesn't reset after each successful registration. [jstultz: Added extra context to the commit message] Reported-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Josh Cartwright <joshc@codeaurora.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1392662736-7803-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2014-02-18cgroup: update cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists() to grab siglockTejun Heo1-0/+5
Currently, there's nothing preventing cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists() from missing set PF_EXITING and race against cgroup_exit(). Depending on the timing, cgroup_exit() may finish with the task still linked on css_set leading to list corruption. Fix it by grabbing siglock in cgroup_enable_task_cg_lists() so that PF_EXITING is guaranteed to be visible. This whole on-demand cg_list optimization is extremely fragile and has ample possibility to lead to bugs which can cause things like once-a-year oops during boot. I'm wondering whether the better approach would be just adding "cgroup_disable=all" handling which disables the whole cgroup rather than tempting fate with this on-demand craziness. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
2014-02-18workqueue: ensure @task is valid across kthread_stop()Lai Jiangshan1-0/+7
When a kworker should die, the kworkre is notified through WORKER_DIE flag instead of kthread_should_stop(). This, IIRC, is primarily to keep the test synchronized inside worker_pool lock. WORKER_DIE is first set while holding pool->lock, the lock is dropped and kthread_stop() is called. Unfortunately, this means that there's a slight chance that the target kworker may see WORKER_DIE before kthread_stop() finishes and exits and frees the target task before or during kthread_stop(). Fix it by pinning the target task before setting WORKER_DIE and putting it after kthread_stop() is done. tj: Improved patch description and comment. Moved pinning above WORKER_DIE for better signify what it's protecting. CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>