timers: Plug locking race vs. timer migration
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Mon, 24 Oct 2016 09:41:56 +0000 (11:41 +0200)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tue, 25 Oct 2016 14:27:39 +0000 (16:27 +0200)
commitb831275a3553c32091222ac619cfddd73a5553fb
tree83869391da1625c235e75b4584dfcff9b0b189ca
parent07d9a380680d1c0eb51ef87ff2eab5c994949e69
timers: Plug locking race vs. timer migration

Linus noticed that lock_timer_base() lacks a READ_ONCE() for accessing the
timer flags. As a consequence the compiler is allowed to reload the flags
between the initial check for TIMER_MIGRATION and the following timer base
computation and the spin lock of the base.

While this has not been observed (yet), we need to make sure that it never
happens.

Fixes: 0eeda71bc30d ("timer: Replace timer base by a cpu index")
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1610241711220.4983@nanos
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
kernel/time/timer.c