Commit eca03d12 authored by Tejun Heo's avatar Tejun Heo Committed by Kamal Mostafa
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percpu: fix synchronization between synchronous map extension and chunk destruction



For non-atomic allocations, pcpu_alloc() can try to extend the area
map synchronously after dropping pcpu_lock; however, the extension
wasn't synchronized against chunk destruction and the chunk might get
freed while extension is in progress.

This patch fixes the bug by putting most of non-atomic allocations
under pcpu_alloc_mutex to synchronize against pcpu_balance_work which
is responsible for async chunk management including destruction.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Reported-by: default avatarVlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reported-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.18+
Fixes: 1a4d7607 ("percpu: implement asynchronous chunk population")
(cherry picked from commit 6710e594)
CVE-2016-4794
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1581871


Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
Acked-by: default avatarChristopher Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
parent 77848738
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