Subsystems that want to register CPU hotplug callbacks, as well as perform
initialization for the CPUs that are already online, often do it as shown
below:
get_online_cpus();
for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
init_cpu(cpu);
register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier);
put_online_cpus();
This is wrong, since it is prone to ABBA deadlocks involving the
cpu_add_remove_lock and the cpu_hotplug.lock (when running concurrently
with CPU hotplug operations).
Instead, the correct and race-free way of performing the callback
registration is:
cpu_notifier_register_begin();
for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
init_cpu(cpu);
/* Note the use of the double underscored version of the API */
__register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier);
cpu_notifier_register_done();
Fix the code in net/core/flow.c by using this latter form of callback
registration.
Cc: Li RongQing <roy.qing...@gmail.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.le...@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetc...@tilera.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org>
Cc: net...@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.b...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
net/core/flow.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/core/flow.c b/net/core/flow.c
index dfa602c..9a2151f 100644
--- a/net/core/flow.c
+++ b/net/core/flow.c
@@ -456,6 +456,8 @@ static int __init flow_cache_init(struct flow_cache *fc)
if (!fc->percpu)
return -ENOMEM;
+ cpu_notifier_register_begin();
+
for_each_online_cpu(i) {
if (flow_cache_cpu_prepare(fc, i))
goto err;
@@ -463,7 +465,9 @@ static int __init flow_cache_init(struct flow_cache *fc)
fc->hotcpu_notifier = (struct notifier_block){
.notifier_call = flow_cache_cpu,
};
- register_hotcpu_notifier(&fc->hotcpu_notifier);
+ __register_hotcpu_notifier(&fc->hotcpu_notifier);
+
+ cpu_notifier_register_done();
setup_timer(&fc->rnd_timer, flow_cache_new_hashrnd,
(unsigned long) fc);
@@ -479,6 +483,8 @@ err:
fcp->hash_table = NULL;
}
+ cpu_notifier_register_done();
+
free_percpu(fc->percpu);
fc->percpu = NULL;
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