[PATCH 3.12 134/170] workqueue: zero cpumask of wq_numa_possible_cpumask on init

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Fri Jul 18 2014 - 09:14:35 EST


From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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

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commit 5a6024f1604eef119cf3a6fa413fe0261a81a8f3 upstream.

When hot-adding and onlining CPU, kernel panic occurs, showing following
call trace.

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000001d08
IP: [<ffffffff8114acfd>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x9d/0xb10
PGD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
...
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff812b8745>] ? cpumask_next_and+0x35/0x50
[<ffffffff810a3283>] ? find_busiest_group+0x113/0x8f0
[<ffffffff81193bc9>] ? deactivate_slab+0x349/0x3c0
[<ffffffff811926f1>] new_slab+0x91/0x300
[<ffffffff815de95a>] __slab_alloc+0x2bb/0x482
[<ffffffff8105bc1c>] ? copy_process.part.25+0xfc/0x14c0
[<ffffffff810a3c78>] ? load_balance+0x218/0x890
[<ffffffff8101a679>] ? sched_clock+0x9/0x10
[<ffffffff81105ba9>] ? trace_clock_local+0x9/0x10
[<ffffffff81193d1c>] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x8c/0x200
[<ffffffff8105bc1c>] copy_process.part.25+0xfc/0x14c0
[<ffffffff81114d0d>] ? trace_buffer_unlock_commit+0x4d/0x60
[<ffffffff81085a80>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140
[<ffffffff8105d0ec>] do_fork+0xbc/0x360
[<ffffffff8105d3b6>] kernel_thread+0x26/0x30
[<ffffffff81086652>] kthreadd+0x2c2/0x300
[<ffffffff81086390>] ? kthread_create_on_cpu+0x60/0x60
[<ffffffff815f20ec>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[<ffffffff81086390>] ? kthread_create_on_cpu+0x60/0x60

In my investigation, I found the root cause is wq_numa_possible_cpumask.
All entries of wq_numa_possible_cpumask is allocated by
alloc_cpumask_var_node(). And these entries are used without initializing.
So these entries have wrong value.

When hot-adding and onlining CPU, wq_update_unbound_numa() is called.
wq_update_unbound_numa() calls alloc_unbound_pwq(). And alloc_unbound_pwq()
calls get_unbound_pool(). In get_unbound_pool(), worker_pool->node is set
as follow:

3592 /* if cpumask is contained inside a NUMA node, we belong to that node */
3593 if (wq_numa_enabled) {
3594 for_each_node(node) {
3595 if (cpumask_subset(pool->attrs->cpumask,
3596 wq_numa_possible_cpumask[node])) {
3597 pool->node = node;
3598 break;
3599 }
3600 }
3601 }

But wq_numa_possible_cpumask[node] does not have correct cpumask. So, wrong
node is selected. As a result, kernel panic occurs.

By this patch, all entries of wq_numa_possible_cpumask are allocated by
zalloc_cpumask_var_node to initialize them. And the panic disappeared.

Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: bce903809ab3 ("workqueue: add wq_numa_tbl_len and wq_numa_possible_cpumask[]")
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
---
kernel/workqueue.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index e0b695893579..3fafbbb31927 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -5029,7 +5029,7 @@ static void __init wq_numa_init(void)
BUG_ON(!tbl);

for_each_node(node)
- BUG_ON(!alloc_cpumask_var_node(&tbl[node], GFP_KERNEL,
+ BUG_ON(!zalloc_cpumask_var_node(&tbl[node], GFP_KERNEL,
node_online(node) ? node : NUMA_NO_NODE));

for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
--
2.0.0

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