From: Pan Xinhui <xinhuix.pan@intel.com>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] kernel/smp.c: fix a panic as cp->info is used wrongly and a list corruption
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 17:03:04 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55531348.1080902@intel.com> (raw)
this patch reverts commit 3440a1ca99707f093e9568ba9762764d3162dd8f which causes the regression.
base knowledge: kernel call cp->func using cp->info as its argument. like cp->func(cp->info);
current code is totally wrong, as 1) &softirq is at stack. 2) cp->info don't point to struct call_single_data.
So in remote_softirq_receive,
1) If the caller had left __try_remote_softirq, dereferencing cp->info could not fetch the correct value.
2) And we can't get struct call_single_data *cp anymore.
The list corruption is below.
__local_trigger will add cp->list into softirq_work_list. But no one will delete cp->list on behalf of us.
if we can succeed to raise_softirq_irqoff, we must delete it from softirq_work_list. because we has lost control of pointer cp.
cp is passed in and may be freed later in other places.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.10
Signed-off-by: xinhuix.pan <xinhuix.pan@intel.com>
---
include/linux/smp.h | 1 +
kernel/softirq.c | 10 +++++++---
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/smp.h b/include/linux/smp.h
index c848876..5b790c3 100644
--- a/include/linux/smp.h
+++ b/include/linux/smp.h
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ struct call_single_data {
smp_call_func_t func;
void *info;
u16 flags;
+ u16 priv;
};
/* total number of cpus in this system (may exceed NR_CPUS) */
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 3d6833f..46308b1 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -625,8 +625,11 @@ static void __local_trigger(struct call_single_data *cp, int softirq)
list_add_tail(&cp->list, head);
/* Trigger the softirq only if the list was previously empty. */
- if (head->next == &cp->list)
+ if (head->next == &cp->list) {
raise_softirq_irqoff(softirq);
+ /*no other places will delete this list_head, we need delete it.*/
+ list_del(&cp->list);
+ }
}
#ifdef CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS
@@ -636,7 +639,7 @@ static void remote_softirq_receive(void *data)
unsigned long flags;
int softirq;
- softirq = *(int *)cp->info;
+ softirq = cp->priv;
local_irq_save(flags);
__local_trigger(cp, softirq);
local_irq_restore(flags);
@@ -646,8 +649,9 @@ static int __try_remote_softirq(struct call_single_data *cp, int cpu, int softir
{
if (cpu_online(cpu)) {
cp->func = remote_softirq_receive;
- cp->info = &softirq;
+ cp->info = cp;
cp->flags = 0;
+ cp->priv = softirq;
__smp_call_function_single(cpu, cp, 0);
return 0;
--
1.9.1
next reply other threads:[~2015-05-12 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-13 9:03 Pan Xinhui [this message]
2015-05-12 12:14 ` [PATCH] kernel/smp.c: fix a panic as cp->info is used wrongly and a list corruption Greg KH
2015-05-15 2:25 ` Pan Xinhui
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