[added to the 4.1 stable tree] powerpc/mm: Fixup preempt underflow with huge pages
From: Sasha Levin <hidden>
Date: 2016-07-12 02:58:23
Subsystem:
linux for powerpc (32-bit and 64-bit), the rest · Maintainers:
Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Ellerman, Linus Torvalds
From: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
This patch has been added to the 4.1 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.
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[ Upstream commit 08a5bb2921e490939f78f38fd0d02858bb709942 ]
hugepd_free() used __get_cpu_var() once. Nothing ensured that the code
accessing the variable did not migrate from one CPU to another and soon
this was noticed by Tiejun Chen in 94b09d755462 ("powerpc/hugetlb:
Replace __get_cpu_var with get_cpu_var"). So we had it fixed.
Christoph Lameter was doing his __get_cpu_var() replaces and forgot
PowerPC. Then he noticed this and sent his fixed up batch again which
got applied as 69111bac42f5 ("powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses").
The careful reader will noticed one little detail: get_cpu_var() got
replaced with this_cpu_ptr(). So now we have a put_cpu_var() which does
a preempt_enable() and nothing that does preempt_disable() so we
underflow the preempt counter.
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <redacted>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <redacted>
---
arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
index 3385e3d..4d29154 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c@@ -472,13 +472,13 @@ static void hugepd_free(struct mmu_gather *tlb, void *hugepte) { struct hugepd_freelist **batchp; - batchp = this_cpu_ptr(&hugepd_freelist_cur); + batchp = &get_cpu_var(hugepd_freelist_cur); if (atomic_read(&tlb->mm->mm_users) < 2 || cpumask_equal(mm_cpumask(tlb->mm), cpumask_of(smp_processor_id()))) { kmem_cache_free(hugepte_cache, hugepte); - put_cpu_var(hugepd_freelist_cur); + put_cpu_var(hugepd_freelist_cur); return; }
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