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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2012-07-19 19:59:38 +0200
committerTony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>2012-08-03 20:45:56 +0200
commitb5975917a3e5f93b5d1c95561aab0aa44327baea (patch)
treeaa2e9ffd6ba21164f2d891224552bed72ae4655a /arch/x86
parentx86: mce: Disable preemption when calling raise_local() (diff)
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x86: mce: Serialize mce injection
raise_mce() fiddles with global state, but lacks any kind of serialization. Add a mutex around the raise_mce() call, so concurrent writers do not stomp on each other toes. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-inject.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-inject.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-inject.c
index 753746f6dbd8..ddc72f839332 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-inject.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce-inject.c
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ static void raise_exception(struct mce *m, struct pt_regs *pregs)
}
static cpumask_var_t mce_inject_cpumask;
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(mce_inject_mutex);
static int mce_raise_notify(unsigned int cmd, struct pt_regs *regs)
{
@@ -229,7 +230,10 @@ static ssize_t mce_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf,
* so do it a jiffie or two later everywhere.
*/
schedule_timeout(2);
+
+ mutex_lock(&mce_inject_mutex);
raise_mce(&m);
+ mutex_unlock(&mce_inject_mutex);
return usize;
}