kernel/watchdog.c: avoid race between lockup detector suspend/resume and CPU hotplug
authorUlrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Fri, 6 Nov 2015 02:44:47 +0000 (18:44 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 6 Nov 2015 03:34:48 +0000 (19:34 -0800)
commitee89e71eb091d3ef8ca2be8bd4ec77ccfa91334c
tree27ad57517e385733fb6ef9e52ef012d77e9ba623
parentac1f591249d95372f3a5ab3828d4af5dfbf5efd3
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 <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/watchdog.c