4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Douglas Miller <dougmill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 966d2b04e070bc040319aaebfec09e0144dc3341 upstream. percpu_ref_tryget() and percpu_ref_tryget_live() should return "true" IFF they acquire a reference. But the return value from atomic_long_inc_not_zero() is a long and may have high bits set, e.g. PERCPU_COUNT_BIAS, and the return value of the tryget routines is bool so the reference may actually be acquired but the routines return "false" which results in a reference leak since the caller assumes it does not need to do a corresponding percpu_ref_put(). This was seen when performing CPU hotplug during I/O, as hangs in blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait where percpu_ref_kill (blk_mq_freeze_queue_start) raced with percpu_ref_tryget (blk_mq_timeout_work). Sample stack trace: __switch_to+0x2c0/0x450 __schedule+0x2f8/0x970 schedule+0x48/0xc0 blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait+0x94/0x120 blk_mq_queue_reinit_work+0xb8/0x180 blk_mq_queue_reinit_prepare+0x84/0xa0 cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x17c/0x600 cpuhp_up_callbacks+0x58/0x150 _cpu_up+0xf0/0x1c0 do_cpu_up+0x120/0x150 cpu_subsys_online+0x64/0xe0 device_online+0xb4/0x120 online_store+0xb4/0xc0 dev_attr_store+0x68/0xa0 sysfs_kf_write+0x80/0xb0 kernfs_fop_write+0x17c/0x250 __vfs_write+0x6c/0x1e0 vfs_write+0xd0/0x270 SyS_write+0x6c/0x110 system_call+0x38/0xe0 Examination of the queue showed a single reference (no PERCPU_COUNT_BIAS, and __PERCPU_REF_DEAD, __PERCPU_REF_ATOMIC set) and no requests. However, conditions at the time of the race are count of PERCPU_COUNT_BIAS + 0 and __PERCPU_REF_DEAD and __PERCPU_REF_ATOMIC set. The fix is to make the tryget routines use an actual boolean internally instead of the atomic long result truncated to a int. Fixes: e625305b3907 percpu-refcount: make percpu_ref based on longs instead of ints Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190751 Signed-off-by: Douglas Miller <dougmill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: e625305b3907 ("percpu-refcount: make percpu_ref based on longs instead of ints") Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/percpu-refcount.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/percpu-refcount.h +++ b/include/linux/percpu-refcount.h @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ static inline void percpu_ref_get(struct static inline bool percpu_ref_tryget(struct percpu_ref *ref) { unsigned long __percpu *percpu_count; - int ret; + bool ret; rcu_read_lock_sched(); @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ static inline bool percpu_ref_tryget(str static inline bool percpu_ref_tryget_live(struct percpu_ref *ref) { unsigned long __percpu *percpu_count; - int ret = false; + bool ret = false; rcu_read_lock_sched(); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html