Patch "Fix: Disable sys_membarrier when nohz_full is enabled" has been added to the 4.10-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    Fix: Disable sys_membarrier when nohz_full is enabled

to the 4.10-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     fix-disable-sys_membarrier-when-nohz_full-is-enabled.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 907565337ebf998a68cb5c5b2174ce5e5da065eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 10:29:28 -0600
Subject: Fix: Disable sys_membarrier when nohz_full is enabled

From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>

commit 907565337ebf998a68cb5c5b2174ce5e5da065eb upstream.

Userspace applications should be allowed to expect the membarrier system
call with MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED command to issue memory barriers on
nohz_full CPUs, but synchronize_sched() does not take those into
account.

Given that we do not want unrelated processes to be able to affect
real-time sensitive nohz_full CPUs, simply return ENOSYS when membarrier
is invoked on a kernel with enabled nohz_full CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
CC: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 kernel/membarrier.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/kernel/membarrier.c
+++ b/kernel/membarrier.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
 #include <linux/membarrier.h>
+#include <linux/tick.h>
 
 /*
  * Bitmask made from a "or" of all commands within enum membarrier_cmd,
@@ -51,6 +52,9 @@
  */
 SYSCALL_DEFINE2(membarrier, int, cmd, int, flags)
 {
+	/* MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED is not compatible with nohz_full. */
+	if (tick_nohz_full_enabled())
+		return -ENOSYS;
 	if (unlikely(flags))
 		return -EINVAL;
 	switch (cmd) {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com are

queue-4.10/fix-disable-sys_membarrier-when-nohz_full-is-enabled.patch