RE: [PATCH] x86/mce/therm_throt: Fix the access of uninitialized therm_work

[Liu, Chuansheng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo.kernel.org@xxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Ingo Molnar
> Sent: Monday, January 6, 2020 3:11 PM
> To: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Liu, Chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@xxxxxxxxx>; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> Luck, Tony <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>; tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; mingo@xxxxxxxxxx;
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mce/therm_throt: Fix the access of uninitialized
> therm_work
> 
> * Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 06:41:55AM +0000, Chuansheng Liu wrote:
> > > In ICL platform, it is easy to hit bootup failure with panic
> > > in thermal interrupt handler during early bootup stage.
> > >
> > > Such issue makes my platform almost can not boot up with
> > > latest kernel code.
> > >
> > > The call stack is like:
> > > kernel BUG at kernel/timer/timer.c:1152!
> > >
> > > Call Trace:
> > > __queue_delayed_work
> > > queue_delayed_work_on
> > > therm_throt_process
> > > intel_thermal_interrupt
> > > ...
> > >
> > > When one CPU is up, the irq is enabled prior to CPU UP
> > > notification which will then initialize therm_worker.
> >
> > You mean the unmasking of the thermal vector at the end of
> > intel_init_thermal()?
> >
> > If so, why don't you move that to the end of the notifier and unmask it
> > only after all the necessary work like setting up the workqueues etc, is
> > done, and save yourself adding yet another silly bool?
> 
> A debugging WARN_ON_ONCE() when the workqueue is not initialized yet
> would also be useful I suspect. This would turn any remaining race-crash
> boot failure in this area into a warning.
> 
Thanks Ingo.
That's a good suggestion, I can try to make another patch about it later.

Best Regards
Chuansheng