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powerpc/mm: Fixup preempt underflow with huge pages
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hugepd_free() used __get_cpu_var() once. Nothing ensured that the code
accessing the variable did not migrate from one CPU to another and soon
this was noticed by Tiejun Chen in 94b09d7 ("powerpc/hugetlb:
Replace __get_cpu_var with get_cpu_var"). So we had it fixed.

Christoph Lameter was doing his __get_cpu_var() replaces and forgot
PowerPC. Then he noticed this and sent his fixed up batch again which
got applied as 69111ba ("powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses").

The careful reader will noticed one little detail: get_cpu_var() got
replaced with this_cpu_ptr(). So now we have a put_cpu_var() which does
a preempt_enable() and nothing that does preempt_disable() so we
underflow the preempt counter.

Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Sebastian Siewior authored and Michael Ellerman committed Mar 29, 2016
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions arch/powerpc/mm/hugetlbpage.c
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Expand Up @@ -413,13 +413,13 @@ static void hugepd_free(struct mmu_gather *tlb, void *hugepte)
{
struct hugepd_freelist **batchp;

batchp = this_cpu_ptr(&hugepd_freelist_cur);
batchp = &get_cpu_var(hugepd_freelist_cur);

if (atomic_read(&tlb->mm->mm_users) < 2 ||
cpumask_equal(mm_cpumask(tlb->mm),
cpumask_of(smp_processor_id()))) {
kmem_cache_free(hugepte_cache, hugepte);
put_cpu_var(hugepd_freelist_cur);
put_cpu_var(hugepd_freelist_cur);
return;
}

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