[PATCH 4.4 29/30] percpu: acquire pcpu_lock when updating pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Mar 24 2017 - 14:06:41 EST


4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 320661b08dd6f1746d5c7ab4eb435ec64b97cd45 upstream.

Update to pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages in pcpu_alloc() is currently done
without holding pcpu_lock. This can lead to bad updates to the variable.
Add missing lock calls.

Fixes: b539b87fed37 ("percpu: implmeent pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages and chunk->nr_populated")
Signed-off-by: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
mm/percpu.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/percpu.c
+++ b/mm/percpu.c
@@ -1012,8 +1012,11 @@ area_found:
mutex_unlock(&pcpu_alloc_mutex);
}

- if (chunk != pcpu_reserved_chunk)
+ if (chunk != pcpu_reserved_chunk) {
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&pcpu_lock, flags);
pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages -= occ_pages;
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pcpu_lock, flags);
+ }

if (pcpu_nr_empty_pop_pages < PCPU_EMPTY_POP_PAGES_LOW)
pcpu_schedule_balance_work();