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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>,
	Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
	rafael@kernel.org, daniel.lezcano@linaro.org,
	linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 4/4] thermal: intel_powerclamp: Use get_cpu() instead of smp_processor_id() to avoid crash
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 13:36:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221011113646.GA12080@duo.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221009205508.1204042-4-sashal@kernel.org>

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Hi!

> From: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 68b99e94a4a2db6ba9b31fe0485e057b9354a640 ]
> 
> When CPU 0 is offline and intel_powerclamp is used to inject
> idle, it generates kernel BUG:
> 
> BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: bash/15687
> caller is debug_smp_processor_id+0x17/0x20
> CPU: 4 PID: 15687 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.19.0-rc7+ #57
> Call Trace:
> <TASK>
> dump_stack_lvl+0x49/0x63
> dump_stack+0x10/0x16
> check_preemption_disabled+0xdd/0xe0
> debug_smp_processor_id+0x17/0x20
> powerclamp_set_cur_state+0x7f/0xf9 [intel_powerclamp]
> ...
> ...
> 
> Here CPU 0 is the control CPU by default and changed to the current CPU,
> if CPU 0 offlined. This check has to be performed under cpus_read_lock(),
> hence the above warning.
> 
> Use get_cpu() instead of smp_processor_id() to avoid this BUG.

This has exactly the same problem as smp_processor_id(), you just
worked around the warning. If it is okay that control_cpu contains
stale value, could we have a comment explaining why?

Thanks,
								Pavel
								
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/intel_powerclamp.c
> @@ -519,8 +519,10 @@ static int start_power_clamp(void)
>  
>  	/* prefer BSP */
>  	control_cpu = 0;
> -	if (!cpu_online(control_cpu))
> -		control_cpu = smp_processor_id();
> +	if (!cpu_online(control_cpu)) {
> +		control_cpu = get_cpu();
> +		put_cpu();
> +	}
>  
>  	clamping = true;
>  	schedule_delayed_work(&poll_pkg_cstate_work, 0);
> -- 
> 2.35.1

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-11 11:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-09 20:55 [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 1/4] ACPI: video: Add Toshiba Satellite/Portege Z830 quirk Sasha Levin
2022-10-09 20:55 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 2/4] MIPS: BCM47XX: Cast memcmp() of function to (void *) Sasha Levin
2022-10-09 20:55 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 3/4] powercap: intel_rapl: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds issue Sasha Levin
2022-10-09 20:55 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.9 4/4] thermal: intel_powerclamp: Use get_cpu() instead of smp_processor_id() to avoid crash Sasha Levin
2022-10-11 11:36   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2022-10-11 13:22     ` Chen Yu
2022-10-12  5:33       ` srinivas pandruvada
2022-10-12 16:58       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2022-10-13  3:06         ` srinivas pandruvada
2022-10-13 12:05           ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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