[tip: perf/urgent] perf: Fix task_function_call() error handling

From: tip-bot2 for Kajol Jain
Date: Fri Oct 09 2020 - 02:24:46 EST


The following commit has been merged into the perf/urgent branch of tip:

Commit-ID: 6d6b8b9f4fceab7266ca03d194f60ec72bd4b654
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/6d6b8b9f4fceab7266ca03d194f60ec72bd4b654
Author: Kajol Jain <kjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 12:17:32 +05:30
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Fri, 09 Oct 2020 08:18:33 +02:00

perf: Fix task_function_call() error handling

The error handling introduced by commit:

2ed6edd33a21 ("perf: Add cond_resched() to task_function_call()")

looses any return value from smp_call_function_single() that is not
{0, -EINVAL}. This is a problem because it will return -EXNIO when the
target CPU is offline. Worse, in that case it'll turn into an infinite
loop.

Fixes: 2ed6edd33a21 ("perf: Add cond_resched() to task_function_call()")
Reported-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain <kjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200827064732.20860-1-kjain@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
kernel/events/core.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index 7ed5248..e8bf922 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ static void remote_function(void *data)
* retry due to any failures in smp_call_function_single(), such as if the
* task_cpu() goes offline concurrently.
*
- * returns @func return value or -ESRCH when the process isn't running
+ * returns @func return value or -ESRCH or -ENXIO when the process isn't running
*/
static int
task_function_call(struct task_struct *p, remote_function_f func, void *info)
@@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ task_function_call(struct task_struct *p, remote_function_f func, void *info)
for (;;) {
ret = smp_call_function_single(task_cpu(p), remote_function,
&data, 1);
- ret = !ret ? data.ret : -EAGAIN;
+ if (!ret)
+ ret = data.ret;

if (ret != -EAGAIN)
break;