ACPI / processor: prevent cpu from becoming online

Even if acpi_processor_handle_eject() offlines cpu, there is a chance
to online the cpu after that. So the patch closes the window by using
get/put_online_cpus().

Why does the patch change _cpu_up() logic?

The patch cares the race of hot-remove cpu and _cpu_up(). If the patch
does not change it, there is the following race.

hot-remove cpu                         |  _cpu_up()
------------------------------------- ------------------------------------
call acpi_processor_handle_eject()     |
     call cpu_down()                   |
     call get_online_cpus()            |
                                       | call cpu_hotplug_begin() and stop here
     call arch_unregister_cpu()        |
     call acpi_unmap_lsapic()          |
     call put_online_cpus()            |
                                       | start and continue _cpu_up()
     return acpi_processor_remove()    |
continue hot-remove the cpu            |

So _cpu_up() can continue to itself. And hot-remove cpu can also continue
itself. If the patch changes _cpu_up() logic, the race disappears as below:

hot-remove cpu                         | _cpu_up()
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
call acpi_processor_handle_eject()     |
     call cpu_down()                   |
     call get_online_cpus()            |
                                       | call cpu_hotplug_begin() and stop here
     call arch_unregister_cpu()        |
     call acpi_unmap_lsapic()          |
          cpu's cpu_present is set     |
          to false by set_cpu_present()|
     call put_online_cpus()            |
                                       | start _cpu_up()
                                       | check cpu_present() and return -EINVAL
     return acpi_processor_remove()    |
continue hot-remove the cpu            |

Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index 42bd331..f45657f 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -348,11 +348,13 @@ static int __cpuinit _cpu_up(unsigned int cpu, int tasks_frozen)
 	unsigned long mod = tasks_frozen ? CPU_TASKS_FROZEN : 0;
 	struct task_struct *idle;
 
-	if (cpu_online(cpu) || !cpu_present(cpu))
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	cpu_hotplug_begin();
 
+	if (cpu_online(cpu) || !cpu_present(cpu)) {
+		ret = -EINVAL;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	idle = idle_thread_get(cpu);
 	if (IS_ERR(idle)) {
 		ret = PTR_ERR(idle);