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    percpu-refcount: fix reference leak during percpu-atomic transition · 12f822d2
    Douglas Miller authored
    commit 966d2b04 upstream.
    
    percpu_ref_tryget() and percpu_ref_tryget_live() should return
    "true" IFF they acquire a reference. But the return value from
    atomic_long_inc_not_zero() is a long and may have high bits set,
    e.g. PERCPU_COUNT_BIAS, and the return value of the tryget routines
    is bool so the reference may actually be acquired but the routines
    return "false" which results in a reference leak since the caller
    assumes it does not need to do a corresponding percpu_ref_put().
    
    This was seen when performing CPU hotplug during I/O, as hangs in
    blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait where percpu_ref_kill (blk_mq_freeze_queue_start)
    raced with percpu_ref_tryget (blk_mq_timeout_work).
    Sample stack trace:
    
    __switch_to+0x2c0/0x450
    __schedule+0x2f8/0x970
    schedule+0x48/0xc0
    blk_mq_freeze_queue_wait+0x94/0x120
    blk_mq_queue_reinit_work+0xb8/0x180
    blk_mq_queue_reinit_prepare+0x84/0xa0
    cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x17c/0x600
    cpuhp_up_callbacks+0x58/0x150
    _cpu_up+0xf0/0x1c0
    do_cpu_up+0x120/0x150
    cpu_subsys_online+0x64/0xe0
    device_online+0xb4/0x120
    online_store+0xb4/0xc0
    dev_attr_store+0x68/0xa0
    sysfs_kf_write+0x80/0xb0
    kernfs_fop_write+0x17c/0x250
    __vfs_write+0x6c/0x1e0
    vfs_write+0xd0/0x270
    SyS_write+0x6c/0x110
    system_call+0x38/0xe0
    
    Examination of the queue showed a single reference (no PERCPU_COUNT_BIAS,
    and __PERCPU_REF_DEAD, __PERCPU_REF_ATOMIC set) and no requests.
    However, conditions at the time of the race are count of PERCPU_COUNT_BIAS + 0
    and __PERCPU_REF_DEAD and __PERCPU_REF_ATOMIC set.
    
    The fix is to make the tryget routines use an actual boolean internally instead
    of the atomic long result truncated to a int.
    
    Fixes: e625305b percpu-refcount: make percpu_ref based on longs instead of ints
    Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190751
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDouglas Miller <dougmill@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Fixes: e625305b
    
     ("percpu-refcount: make percpu_ref based on longs instead of ints")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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