The user triggers the creation of a pseudo-locked region when writing
the requested schemata to the schemata resctrl file. The pseudo-locking
of a region is required to be done on a CPU that is associated with the
cache on which the pseudo-locked region will reside. In order to run the
locking code on a specific CPU the needed CPU has to be selected and
ensured to remain online during the entire locking sequence.
At this time the cpu_hotplug_lock is not taken during the pseudo-lock
region creation and it is thus possible for a CPU to be selected to run
the pseudo-locking code and then that CPU to go offline before the
thread is able to run on it.
Fix this by ensuring that the cpu_hotplug_lock is taken while the CPU on
which code has to run needs to be controlled. Since the cpu_hotplug_lock
is always taken before rdtgroup_mutex the lock order is maintained.
Fixes: e0bdfe8e36f3 ("x86/intel_rdt: Support creation/removal of pseudo-locked region")
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c
index 03ee13235a45..6f7adb3be01e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/ctrlmondata.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
+#include <linux/cpu.h>
#include <linux/kernfs.h>
#include <linux/seq_file.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
@@ -381,9 +382,11 @@ ssize_t rdtgroup_schemata_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
return -EINVAL;
buf[nbytes - 1] = '\0';
+ cpus_read_lock();
rdtgrp = rdtgroup_kn_lock_live(of->kn);
if (!rdtgrp) {
rdtgroup_kn_unlock(of->kn);
+ cpus_read_unlock();
return -ENOENT;
}
rdt_last_cmd_clear();
@@ -438,6 +441,7 @@ ssize_t rdtgroup_schemata_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
out:
rdtgroup_kn_unlock(of->kn);
+ cpus_read_unlock();
return ret ?: nbytes;
}
--
2.17.0
