This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/oprofile/ppro: Do not use __this_cpu*() in preemptible context to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: x86-oprofile-ppro-do-not-use-__this_cpu-in-preemptible-context.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a743bbeef27b9176987ec0cb7f906ab0ab52d1da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 18:53:07 +0100 Subject: x86/oprofile/ppro: Do not use __this_cpu*() in preemptible context From: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> commit a743bbeef27b9176987ec0cb7f906ab0ab52d1da upstream. The warning below says it all: BUG: using __this_cpu_read() in preemptible [00000000] code: swapper/0/1 caller is __this_cpu_preempt_check CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.14.0-rc8 #4 Call Trace: dump_stack check_preemption_disabled ? do_early_param __this_cpu_preempt_check arch_perfmon_init op_nmi_init ? alloc_pci_root_info oprofile_arch_init oprofile_init do_one_initcall ... These accessors should not have been used in the first place: it is PPro so no mixed silicon revisions and thus it can simply use boot_cpu_data. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> Fix-creation-mandated-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: x86@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_ppro.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_ppro.c +++ b/arch/x86/oprofile/op_model_ppro.c @@ -212,8 +212,8 @@ static void arch_perfmon_setup_counters( eax.full = cpuid_eax(0xa); /* Workaround for BIOS bugs in 6/15. Taken from perfmon2 */ - if (eax.split.version_id == 0 && __this_cpu_read(cpu_info.x86) == 6 && - __this_cpu_read(cpu_info.x86_model) == 15) { + if (eax.split.version_id == 0 && boot_cpu_data.x86 == 6 && + boot_cpu_data.x86_model == 15) { eax.split.version_id = 2; eax.split.num_counters = 2; eax.split.bit_width = 40; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bp@xxxxxxx are queue-3.18/x86-oprofile-ppro-do-not-use-__this_cpu-in-preemptible-context.patch