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[4.2.y-ckt,stable] Patch "tracepoints: Do not trace when cpu is offline" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

Message ID 1457390050-32088-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com
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Kamal Mostafa March 7, 2016, 10:34 p.m. UTC
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    tracepoints: Do not trace when cpu is offline

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt5.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From 0981124bedaab313b5fca3fc624af5954827b30e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 12:36:14 -0500
Subject: tracepoints: Do not trace when cpu is offline

commit f37755490fe9bf76f6ba1d8c6591745d3574a6a6 upstream.

The tracepoint infrastructure uses RCU sched protection to enable and
disable tracepoints safely. There are some instances where tracepoints are
used in infrastructure code (like kfree()) that get called after a CPU is
going offline, and perhaps when it is coming back online but hasn't been
registered yet.

This can probuce the following warning:

 [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
 4.4.0-00006-g0fe53e8-dirty #34 Tainted: G S
 -------------------------------
 include/trace/events/kmem.h:141 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!

 other info that might help us debug this:

 RCU used illegally from offline CPU!  rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
 no locks held by swapper/8/0.

 stack backtrace:
  CPU: 8 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/8 Tainted: G S              4.4.0-00006-g0fe53e8-dirty #34
  Call Trace:
  [c0000005b76c78d0] [c0000000008b9540] .dump_stack+0x98/0xd4 (unreliable)
  [c0000005b76c7950] [c00000000010c898] .lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x108/0x170
  [c0000005b76c79e0] [c00000000029adc0] .kfree+0x390/0x440
  [c0000005b76c7a80] [c000000000055f74] .destroy_context+0x44/0x100
  [c0000005b76c7b00] [c0000000000934a0] .__mmdrop+0x60/0x150
  [c0000005b76c7b90] [c0000000000e3ff0] .idle_task_exit+0x130/0x140
  [c0000005b76c7c20] [c000000000075804] .pseries_mach_cpu_die+0x64/0x310
  [c0000005b76c7cd0] [c000000000043e7c] .cpu_die+0x3c/0x60
  [c0000005b76c7d40] [c0000000000188d8] .arch_cpu_idle_dead+0x28/0x40
  [c0000005b76c7db0] [c000000000101e6c] .cpu_startup_entry+0x50c/0x560
  [c0000005b76c7ed0] [c000000000043bd8] .start_secondary+0x328/0x360
  [c0000005b76c7f90] [c000000000008a6c] start_secondary_prolog+0x10/0x14

This warning is not a false positive either. RCU is not protecting code that
is being executed while the CPU is offline.

Instead of playing "whack-a-mole(TM)" and adding conditional statements to
the tracepoints we find that are used in this instance, simply add a
cpu_online() test to the tracepoint code where the tracepoint will be
ignored if the CPU is offline.

Use of raw_smp_processor_id() is fine, as there should never be a case where
the tracepoint code goes from running on a CPU that is online and suddenly
gets migrated to a CPU that is offline.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455387773-4245-1-git-send-email-kda@linux-powerpc.org

Reported-by: Denis Kirjanov <kda@linux-powerpc.org>
Fixes: 97e1c18e8d17b ("tracing: Kernel Tracepoints")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 include/linux/tracepoint.h | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

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diff --git a/include/linux/tracepoint.h b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
index c8e3030..51e182c 100644
--- a/include/linux/tracepoint.h
+++ b/include/linux/tracepoint.h
@@ -14,8 +14,10 @@ 
  * See the file COPYING for more details.
  */

+#include <linux/smp.h>
 #include <linux/errno.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/cpumask.h>
 #include <linux/rcupdate.h>
 #include <linux/static_key.h>

@@ -129,6 +131,9 @@  extern void syscall_unregfunc(void);
 		void *it_func;						\
 		void *__data;						\
 									\
+		if (!cpu_online(raw_smp_processor_id()))		\
+			return;						\
+									\
 		if (!(cond))						\
 			return;						\
 		prercu;							\