From a2db672aa305a045404615e5222ba681bab6cf58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Silas Boyd-Wickizer Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 12:33:27 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Use get_online_cpus to avoid races involving CPU hotplug If arch/x86/kernel/msr.c is a module, a CPU might offline or online between the for_each_online_cpu(i) loop and the call to register_hotcpu_notifier in msr_init or the call to unregister_hotcpu_notifier in msr_exit. The potential races can lead to leaks/duplicates, attempts to destroy non-existant devices, or random pointer dereferences. For example, in msr_init if: for_each_online_cpu(i) { err = msr_device_create(i); if (err != 0) goto out_class; } <----- CPU offlines register_hotcpu_notifier(&msr_class_cpu_notifier); and the CPU never onlines before msr_exit, then the module will never call msr_device_destroy for the associated CPU. This fix surrounds for_each_online_cpu and register_hotcpu_notifier or unregister_hotcpu_notifier with get_online_cpus+put_online_cpus. Tested on a VM. Signed-off-by: Silas Boyd-Wickizer Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- arch/x86/kernel/msr.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c b/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c index eb113693f043..a7c5661f8496 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/msr.c @@ -257,12 +257,14 @@ static int __init msr_init(void) goto out_chrdev; } msr_class->devnode = msr_devnode; + get_online_cpus(); for_each_online_cpu(i) { err = msr_device_create(i); if (err != 0) goto out_class; } register_hotcpu_notifier(&msr_class_cpu_notifier); + put_online_cpus(); err = 0; goto out; @@ -271,6 +273,7 @@ out_class: i = 0; for_each_online_cpu(i) msr_device_destroy(i); + put_online_cpus(); class_destroy(msr_class); out_chrdev: __unregister_chrdev(MSR_MAJOR, 0, NR_CPUS, "cpu/msr"); @@ -281,11 +284,13 @@ out: static void __exit msr_exit(void) { int cpu = 0; + get_online_cpus(); for_each_online_cpu(cpu) msr_device_destroy(cpu); class_destroy(msr_class); __unregister_chrdev(MSR_MAJOR, 0, NR_CPUS, "cpu/msr"); unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&msr_class_cpu_notifier); + put_online_cpus(); } module_init(msr_init); -- 2.30.2