tick: Cleanup NOHZ per cpu data on cpu down
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fri, 3 May 2013 13:02:50 +0000 (15:02 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sun, 19 May 2013 18:38:25 +0000 (11:38 -0700)
commitc25c0eb5e30cb3666f8d8d75f4994383ac361592
tree2f2ff53e9012bc95cf420dc341afe8d576089e94
parent3715b5faca27616b1c488a61a1339480b7d06a76
tick: Cleanup NOHZ per cpu data on cpu down

commit 4b0c0f294f60abcdd20994a8341a95c8ac5eeb96 upstream.

Prarit reported a crash on CPU offline/online. The reason is that on
CPU down the NOHZ related per cpu data of the dead cpu is not cleaned
up. If at cpu online an interrupt happens before the per cpu tick
device is registered the irq_enter() check potentially sees stale data
and dereferences a NULL pointer.

Cleanup the data after the cpu is dead.

Reported-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1305031451561.2886@ionos
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/time/tick-sched.c