[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "workqueue: zero cpumask of wq_numa_possible_cpumask on init" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    workqueue: zero cpumask of wq_numa_possible_cpumask on init

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.6.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki at jp.fujitsu.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 09:56:48 -0400
Subject: workqueue: zero cpumask of wq_numa_possible_cpumask on init

commit 5a6024f1604eef119cf3a6fa413fe0261a81a8f3 upstream.

When hot-adding and onlining CPU, kernel panic occurs, showing following
call trace.

  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000000000001d08
  IP: [<ffffffff8114acfd>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x9d/0xb10
  PGD 0
  Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
  ...
  Call Trace:
   [<ffffffff812b8745>] ? cpumask_next_and+0x35/0x50
   [<ffffffff810a3283>] ? find_busiest_group+0x113/0x8f0
   [<ffffffff81193bc9>] ? deactivate_slab+0x349/0x3c0
   [<ffffffff811926f1>] new_slab+0x91/0x300
   [<ffffffff815de95a>] __slab_alloc+0x2bb/0x482
   [<ffffffff8105bc1c>] ? copy_process.part.25+0xfc/0x14c0
   [<ffffffff810a3c78>] ? load_balance+0x218/0x890
   [<ffffffff8101a679>] ? sched_clock+0x9/0x10
   [<ffffffff81105ba9>] ? trace_clock_local+0x9/0x10
   [<ffffffff81193d1c>] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x8c/0x200
   [<ffffffff8105bc1c>] copy_process.part.25+0xfc/0x14c0
   [<ffffffff81114d0d>] ? trace_buffer_unlock_commit+0x4d/0x60
   [<ffffffff81085a80>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x140/0x140
   [<ffffffff8105d0ec>] do_fork+0xbc/0x360
   [<ffffffff8105d3b6>] kernel_thread+0x26/0x30
   [<ffffffff81086652>] kthreadd+0x2c2/0x300
   [<ffffffff81086390>] ? kthread_create_on_cpu+0x60/0x60
   [<ffffffff815f20ec>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
   [<ffffffff81086390>] ? kthread_create_on_cpu+0x60/0x60

In my investigation, I found the root cause is wq_numa_possible_cpumask.
All entries of wq_numa_possible_cpumask is allocated by
alloc_cpumask_var_node(). And these entries are used without initializing.
So these entries have wrong value.

When hot-adding and onlining CPU, wq_update_unbound_numa() is called.
wq_update_unbound_numa() calls alloc_unbound_pwq(). And alloc_unbound_pwq()
calls get_unbound_pool(). In get_unbound_pool(), worker_pool->node is set
as follow:

3592         /* if cpumask is contained inside a NUMA node, we belong to that node */
3593         if (wq_numa_enabled) {
3594                 for_each_node(node) {
3595                         if (cpumask_subset(pool->attrs->cpumask,
3596                                            wq_numa_possible_cpumask[node])) {
3597                                 pool->node = node;
3598                                 break;
3599                         }
3600                 }
3601         }

But wq_numa_possible_cpumask[node] does not have correct cpumask. So, wrong
node is selected. As a result, kernel panic occurs.

By this patch, all entries of wq_numa_possible_cpumask are allocated by
zalloc_cpumask_var_node to initialize them. And the panic disappeared.

Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki at jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs at cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
Fixes: bce903809ab3 ("workqueue: add wq_numa_tbl_len and wq_numa_possible_cpumask[]")
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/workqueue.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index 61212c9..92cac4b 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -5025,7 +5025,7 @@ static void __init wq_numa_init(void)
 	BUG_ON(!tbl);

 	for_each_node(node)
-		BUG_ON(!alloc_cpumask_var_node(&tbl[node], GFP_KERNEL,
+		BUG_ON(!zalloc_cpumask_var_node(&tbl[node], GFP_KERNEL,
 				node_online(node) ? node : NUMA_NO_NODE));

 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
--
1.9.1