[PATCH] arm64: smp: Prevent raw_smp_processor_id() recursion
Robin Murphy
robin.murphy at arm.com
Thu Dec 1 09:16:50 PST 2016
On 01/12/16 15:55, Robin Murphy wrote:
> Under CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y, this_cpu_ptr() ends up calling back into
> raw_smp_processor_id(), resulting in some hilariously catastrophic
> infinite recursion. In the normal case, we have:
>
> #define this_cpu_ptr(ptr) raw_cpu_ptr(ptr)
>
> and everything is dandy. However for CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT, this_cpu_ptr()
> is defined in terms of my_cpu_offset, wherein the fun begins:
>
> #define my_cpu_offset per_cpu_offset(smp_processor_id())
> ...
> #define smp_processor_id() debug_smp_processor_id()
> ...
> notrace unsigned int debug_smp_processor_id(void)
> {
> return check_preemption_disabled("smp_processor_id", "");
> ...
> notrace static unsigned int check_preemption_disabled(const char *what1,
> const char *what2)
> {
> int this_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
>
> and bang. Use raw_cpu_ptr() directly to avoid that.
>
> Reported-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski at samsung.com>
> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy at arm.com>
I wasn't sure whether commit IDs on for-next/core are stable, but if
they are, this could also have:
Fixes: 57c82954e77f ("arm64: make cpu number a percpu variable")
Robin.
> ---
>
> Since I just reproduced this locally to verify Will's suggestion, it
> seemed I might as well just write it up as a patch :)
>
> arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h
> index a62db952ffcb..d050d720a1b4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/smp.h
> @@ -41,8 +41,10 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU_READ_MOSTLY(int, cpu_number);
> * We don't use this_cpu_read(cpu_number) as that has implicit writes to
> * preempt_count, and associated (compiler) barriers, that we'd like to avoid
> * the expense of. If we're preemptible, the value can be stale at use anyway.
> + * And we can't use this_cpu_ptr() either, as that winds up recursing back
> + * here under CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y.
> */
> -#define raw_smp_processor_id() (*this_cpu_ptr(&cpu_number))
> +#define raw_smp_processor_id() (*raw_cpu_ptr(&cpu_number))
>
> struct seq_file;
>
>
More information about the linux-arm-kernel
mailing list