[PATCH for-4.8] irq/affinity: use get/put_online_cpus

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Aug 11 2016 - 10:06:53 EST


Without locking out CPU mask operations we might end up with an inconsistent
view of the cpumask in the function.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
kernel/irq/affinity.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/irq/affinity.c b/kernel/irq/affinity.c
index f689593..32f6cfc 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/affinity.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/affinity.c
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ struct cpumask *irq_create_affinity_mask(unsigned int *nr_vecs)
return NULL;
}

+ get_online_cpus();
if (max_vecs >= num_online_cpus()) {
cpumask_copy(affinity_mask, cpu_online_mask);
*nr_vecs = num_online_cpus();
@@ -56,6 +57,7 @@ struct cpumask *irq_create_affinity_mask(unsigned int *nr_vecs)
}
*nr_vecs = vecs;
}
+ put_online_cpus();

return affinity_mask;
}
--
2.1.4