linux/arch/x86
Silas Boyd-Wickizer a2db672aa3 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 <sbw@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-09-23 07:43:56 -07:00
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boot x86, build: Globally set -fno-pic 2012-08-10 16:12:30 -07:00
configs x86/kconfig: Remove CONFIG_TR=y from the defconfigs 2012-03-24 08:18:03 +01:00
crypto crypto: twofish-avx - remove useless instruction 2012-07-11 11:08:30 +08:00
ia32 x86, compat: Use test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32) in compat signal delivery 2012-06-14 18:16:04 -07:00
include/asm x86/spinlocks: Fix comment in spinlock.h 2012-08-22 09:52:47 +02:00
kernel Use get_online_cpus to avoid races involving CPU hotplug 2012-09-23 07:43:56 -07:00
kvm KVM: x86: fix KVM_GET_MSR for PV EOI 2012-08-27 18:03:05 -03:00
lguest
lib Merge branch 'x86/cpu' into perf/core 2012-07-05 21:12:11 +02:00
math-emu x86: Rename trap_no to trap_nr in thread_struct 2012-03-13 06:24:09 +01:00
mm mm: hugetlbfs: correctly populate shared pmd 2012-08-21 16:45:02 -07:00
net x86 bpf_jit: support BPF_S_ANC_ALU_XOR_X instruction 2012-06-06 09:42:44 -07:00
oprofile perf/x86/amd: Unify AMD's generic and family 15h pmus 2012-07-05 21:19:41 +02:00
pci Merge branch 'pci/myron-pcibios_setup' into next 2012-07-05 15:31:05 -06:00
platform Revert "x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock" 2012-08-14 09:58:25 -07:00
power x86, kvm: Call restore_sched_clock_state() only after %gs is initialized 2012-04-02 13:53:00 +02:00
realmode x86, build: Globally set -fno-pic 2012-08-10 16:12:30 -07:00
syscalls x32: Use compat shims for {g,s}etsockopt 2012-08-18 14:15:39 -07:00
tools x86/decoder: Fix bsr/bsf/jmpe decoding with operand-size prefix 2012-06-06 08:54:18 +02:00
um um: switch UPT_SET_RETURN_VALUE and regs_return_value to pt_regs 2012-08-01 23:33:16 +02:00
vdso x86, cpu: Rename checking_wrmsrl() to wrmsrl_safe() 2012-06-07 13:32:04 -07:00
video x86: Use vga_default_device() when determining whether an fb is primary 2012-04-24 09:50:17 +01:00
xen xen: fix logical error in tlb flushing 2012-09-05 10:50:21 -04:00
.gitignore
Kbuild x86, realmode: realmode.bin infrastructure 2012-05-08 11:41:48 -07:00
Kconfig Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-08-03 10:59:36 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu x86: Tighten dependencies of CPU_SUP_*_32 2012-03-08 10:57:34 +01:00
Kconfig.debug x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_shift knob into debugfs 2012-06-27 19:29:10 -07:00
Makefile x86, build: Globally set -fno-pic 2012-08-10 16:12:30 -07:00
Makefile_32.cpu
Makefile.um um: fix linker script generation 2012-04-09 13:59:00 -04:00