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authorHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>2010-11-26 13:42:47 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-01-07 13:58:30 -0800
commitb3568787820faf58fd5429a6a392b555e6b2ae82 (patch)
tree4377f63708804ee8ea392275bb3e41a516964980 /kernel
parent19e88f19823998401819784fb063f18369005a7e (diff)
printk: Fix wake_up_klogd() vs cpu hotplug
commit 49f4138346b3cec2706adff02658fe27ceb1e46f upstream. wake_up_klogd() may get called from preemptible context but uses __raw_get_cpu_var() to write to a per cpu variable. If it gets preempted between getting the address and writing to it, the cpu in question could be offline if the process gets scheduled back and hence writes to the per cpu data of an offline cpu. This buggy behaviour was introduced with fa33507a "printk: robustify printk, fix #2" which was supposed to fix a "using smp_processor_id() in preemptible" warning. Let's use this_cpu_write() instead which disables preemption and makes sure that the outlined scenario cannot happen. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20101126124247.GC7023@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/printk.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index faa9f5915480..44a2aa76baa4 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -1070,7 +1070,7 @@ int printk_needs_cpu(int cpu)
void wake_up_klogd(void)
{
if (waitqueue_active(&log_wait))
- __raw_get_cpu_var(printk_pending) = 1;
+ this_cpu_write(printk_pending, 1);
}
/**