Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  rcu: fix hotplug vs rcu race

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcuclassic.c b/kernel/rcuclassic.c
index f4ffbd0f306f..a38895a5b8e2 100644
--- a/kernel/rcuclassic.c
+++ b/kernel/rcuclassic.c
@@ -89,8 +89,22 @@ static void force_quiescent_state(struct rcu_data *rdp,
                 /*
                  * Don't send IPI to itself. With irqs disabled,
                  * rdp->cpu is the current cpu.
+                 *
+                 * cpu_online_map is updated by the _cpu_down()
+                 * using stop_machine_run(). Since we're in irqs disabled
+                 * section, stop_machine_run() is not exectuting, hence
+                 * the cpu_online_map is stable.
+                 *
+                 * However,  a cpu might have been offlined _just_ before
+                 * we disabled irqs while entering here.
+                 * And rcu subsystem might not yet have handled the CPU_DEAD
+                 * notification, leading to the offlined cpu's bit
+                 * being set in the rcp->cpumask.
+                 *
+                 * Hence cpumask = (rcp->cpumask & cpu_online_map) to prevent
+                 * sending smp_reschedule() to an offlined CPU.
                  */
-                cpumask = rcp->cpumask;
+                cpus_and(cpumask, rcp->cpumask, cpu_online_map);
                 cpu_clear(rdp->cpu, cpumask);
                 for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, cpumask)
                         smp_send_reschedule(cpu);