Use get_online_cpus to avoid races involving CPU hotplug

If arch/x86/kernel/cpuid.c is a module, a CPU might offline or online between the for_each_online_cpu() loop and the call to register_hotcpu_notifier in cpuid_init or the call to unregister_hotcpu_notifier in cpuid_exit. The potential races can lead to leaks/duplicates, attempts to destroy non-existant devices, or random pointer dereferences.

For example, in cpuid_exit if:

        for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
                cpuid_device_destroy(cpu);
        class_destroy(cpuid_class);
        __unregister_chrdev(CPUID_MAJOR, 0, NR_CPUS, "cpu/cpuid");
        <----- CPU onlines
        unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&cpuid_class_cpu_notifier);

the hotcpu notifier will attempt to create a device for the cpuid_class, which the module already destroyed.

This fix surrounds for_each_online_cpu and register_hotcpu_notifier or unregister_hotcpu_notifier with get_online_cpus+put_online_cpus.

Tested on a VM.

Signed-off-by Silas Boyd-Wickizer <[email protected]>

---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpuid.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

arch/x86/kernel/cpuid.c +5 -0

index 39472dd..60c7891 100644
@@ -199,12 +199,14 @@ static int __init cpuid_init(void)
 		goto out_chrdev;
 	}
 	cpuid_class->devnode = cpuid_devnode;
+	get_online_cpus();
 	for_each_online_cpu(i) {
 		err = cpuid_device_create(i);
 		if (err != 0)
 			goto out_class;
 	}
 	register_hotcpu_notifier(&cpuid_class_cpu_notifier);
+	put_online_cpus();
 
 	err = 0;
 	goto out;

@@ -214,6 +216,7 @@ out_class:
 	for_each_online_cpu(i) {
 		cpuid_device_destroy(i);
 	}
+	put_online_cpus();
 	class_destroy(cpuid_class);
 out_chrdev:
 	__unregister_chrdev(CPUID_MAJOR, 0, NR_CPUS, "cpu/cpuid");

@@ -225,11 +228,13 @@ static void __exit cpuid_exit(void)
 {
 	int cpu = 0;
 
+	get_online_cpus();
 	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
 		cpuid_device_destroy(cpu);
 	class_destroy(cpuid_class);
 	__unregister_chrdev(CPUID_MAJOR, 0, NR_CPUS, "cpu/cpuid");
 	unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&cpuid_class_cpu_notifier);
+	put_online_cpus();
 }
 
 module_init(cpuid_init);

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1.7.10.4