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Subject[PATCH] [63/223] percpu: fix list_head init bug in __percpu_counter_init()
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2.6.35-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Masanori ITOH <itoumsn@nttdata.co.jp>

commit 8474b591faf3bb0a1e08a60d21d6baac498f15e4 upstream.

WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:26 __list_add+0x3f/0x81()
Hardware name: Express5800/B120a [N8400-085]
list_add corruption. next->prev should be prev (ffffffff81a7ea00), but was dead000000200200. (next=ffff88080b872d58).
Modules linked in: aoe ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat autofs4 sunrpc bridge 8021q garp stp llc ipv6 cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq freq_table dm_round_robin dm_multipath kvm_intel kvm uinput lpfc scsi_transport_fc igb ioatdma scsi_tgt i2c_i801 i2c_core dca iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support pcspkr shpchp megaraid_sas [last unloaded: aoe]
Pid: 54, comm: events/3 Tainted: G W 2.6.34-vanilla1 #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8104bd77>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7c/0x94
[<ffffffff8104bde6>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x41/0x43
[<ffffffff8120fd2e>] __list_add+0x3f/0x81
[<ffffffff81212a12>] __percpu_counter_init+0x59/0x6b
[<ffffffff810d8499>] bdi_init+0x118/0x17e
[<ffffffff811f2c50>] blk_alloc_queue_node+0x79/0x143
[<ffffffff811f2d2b>] blk_alloc_queue+0x11/0x13
[<ffffffffa02a931d>] aoeblk_gdalloc+0x8e/0x1c9 [aoe]
[<ffffffffa02aa655>] aoecmd_sleepwork+0x25/0xa8 [aoe]
[<ffffffff8106186c>] worker_thread+0x1a9/0x237
[<ffffffffa02aa630>] ? aoecmd_sleepwork+0x0/0xa8 [aoe]
[<ffffffff81065827>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x39
[<ffffffff810616c3>] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x237
[<ffffffff810653ad>] kthread+0x7f/0x87
[<ffffffff8100aa24>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[<ffffffff8106532e>] ? kthread+0x0/0x87
[<ffffffff8100aa20>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10

It's because there is no initialization code for a list_head contained in
the struct backing_dev_info under CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU, and the bug comes up
when block device drivers calling blk_alloc_queue() are used. In case of
me, I got them by using aoe.

Signed-off-by: Masanori Itoh <itoumsn@nttdata.co.jp>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

---
lib/percpu_counter.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Index: linux/lib/percpu_counter.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/lib/percpu_counter.c
+++ linux/lib/percpu_counter.c
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ int __percpu_counter_init(struct percpu_
if (!fbc->counters)
return -ENOMEM;
#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fbc->list);
mutex_lock(&percpu_counters_lock);
list_add(&fbc->list, &percpu_counters);
mutex_unlock(&percpu_counters_lock);

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