From ee89e71eb091d3ef8ca2be8bd4ec77ccfa91334c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ulrich Obergfell Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 18:44:47 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] kernel/watchdog.c: avoid race between lockup detector suspend/resume and CPU hotplug The lockup detector suspend/resume interface that was introduced by commit 8c073d27d7ad ("watchdog: introduce watchdog_suspend() and watchdog_resume()") does not protect itself against races with CPU hotplug. Hence, theoretically it is possible that a new watchdog thread is started on a hotplugged CPU while the lockup detector is suspended, and the thread could thus interfere unexpectedly with the code that requested to suspend the lockup detector. Avoid the race by calling get_online_cpus() in lockup_detector_suspend() put_online_cpus() in lockup_detector_resume() Signed-off-by: Ulrich Obergfell Acked-by: Don Zickus Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin Cc: Ulrich Obergfell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/watchdog.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c index 0a23125369f1..7357842da933 100644 --- a/kernel/watchdog.c +++ b/kernel/watchdog.c @@ -719,6 +719,7 @@ int lockup_detector_suspend(void) { int ret = 0; + get_online_cpus(); mutex_lock(&watchdog_proc_mutex); /* * Multiple suspend requests can be active in parallel (counted by @@ -759,6 +760,7 @@ void lockup_detector_resume(void) watchdog_unpark_threads(); mutex_unlock(&watchdog_proc_mutex); + put_online_cpus(); } static int update_watchdog_all_cpus(void) -- 2.20.1