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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2013-05-03 20:22:36 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-05-05 11:12:19 +0200
commitfbd44a607a1a5019bc32c3615cead8c5ee8f89c9 (patch)
treeeec6e7d971a266352d3f8a9d4e90323b4d6afdfb /kernel/time
parentipc: fix GETALL/IPC_RM race for sysv semaphores (diff)
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tick: Use zalloc_cpumask_var for allocating offstack cpumasks
commit b352bc1cbc (tick: Convert broadcast cpu bitmaps to cpumask_var_t) broke CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK in a very subtle way. Instead of allocating the cpumasks with zalloc_cpumask_var it uses alloc_cpumask_var, so we can get random data there, which of course confuses the logic completely and causes random failures. Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Reported-and-tested-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1305032015060.2990@ionos Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
index 61d00a8cdf2f..d70cdc42c829 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c
@@ -785,11 +785,11 @@ bool tick_broadcast_oneshot_available(void)
void __init tick_broadcast_init(void)
{
- alloc_cpumask_var(&tick_broadcast_mask, GFP_NOWAIT);
- alloc_cpumask_var(&tmpmask, GFP_NOWAIT);
+ zalloc_cpumask_var(&tick_broadcast_mask, GFP_NOWAIT);
+ zalloc_cpumask_var(&tmpmask, GFP_NOWAIT);
#ifdef CONFIG_TICK_ONESHOT
- alloc_cpumask_var(&tick_broadcast_oneshot_mask, GFP_NOWAIT);
- alloc_cpumask_var(&tick_broadcast_pending_mask, GFP_NOWAIT);
- alloc_cpumask_var(&tick_broadcast_force_mask, GFP_NOWAIT);
+ zalloc_cpumask_var(&tick_broadcast_oneshot_mask, GFP_NOWAIT);
+ zalloc_cpumask_var(&tick_broadcast_pending_mask, GFP_NOWAIT);
+ zalloc_cpumask_var(&tick_broadcast_force_mask, GFP_NOWAIT);
#endif
}