[PATCH] tracing/osnoise: fix potential deadlock in cpu hotplug

From: hu.shengming

Date: Tue Mar 24 2026 - 03:31:11 EST


From: luohaiyang10243395 <luo.haiyang@xxxxxxxxxx>

The following sequence may leads deadlock in cpu hotplug:

CPU0 | CPU1
| schedule_work_on
|
_cpu_down//set CPU1 offline |
cpus_write_lock |
| osnoise_hotplug_workfn
| mutex_lock(&interface_lock);
| cpus_read_lock(); //wait cpu_hotplug_lock
|
| cpuhp/1
| osnoise_cpu_die
| kthread_stop
| wait_for_completion //wait osnoise/1 exit
|
| osnoise/1
| osnoise_sleep
| mutex_lock(&interface_lock); //deadlock

Fix by swap the order of cpus_read_lock() and mutex_lock(&interface_lock).

Signed-off-by: Luo Haiyang <luo.haiyang@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
index dee610e465b9..be6cf0bb3c03 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
@@ -2073,8 +2073,8 @@ static void osnoise_hotplug_workfn(struct work_struct *dummy)
if (!osnoise_has_registered_instances())
return;

- guard(mutex)(&interface_lock);
guard(cpus_read_lock)();
+ guard(mutex)(&interface_lock);

if (!cpu_online(cpu))
return;
@@ -2237,11 +2237,11 @@ static ssize_t osnoise_options_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
if (running)
stop_per_cpu_kthreads();

- mutex_lock(&interface_lock);
/*
* avoid CPU hotplug operations that might read options.
*/
cpus_read_lock();
+ mutex_lock(&interface_lock);

retval = cnt;

@@ -2257,8 +2257,8 @@ static ssize_t osnoise_options_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
clear_bit(option, &osnoise_options);
}

- cpus_read_unlock();
mutex_unlock(&interface_lock);
+ cpus_read_unlock();

if (running)
start_per_cpu_kthreads();
@@ -2345,16 +2345,16 @@ osnoise_cpus_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, size_t count,
if (running)
stop_per_cpu_kthreads();

- mutex_lock(&interface_lock);
/*
* osnoise_cpumask is read by CPU hotplug operations.
*/
cpus_read_lock();
+ mutex_lock(&interface_lock);

cpumask_copy(&osnoise_cpumask, osnoise_cpumask_new);

- cpus_read_unlock();
mutex_unlock(&interface_lock);
+ cpus_read_unlock();

if (running)
start_per_cpu_kthreads();
--
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