tracing/timerlat: Add interface_lock around clearing of kthread in stop_kthread()
The timerlat interface will get and put the task that is part of the "kthread" field of the osn_var to keep it around until all references are released. But here's a race in the "stop_kthread()" code that will call put_task_struct() on the kthread if it is not a kernel thread. This can race with the releasing of the references to that task struct and the put_task_struct() can be called twice when it should have been called just once. Take the interface_lock() in stop_kthread() to synchronize this change. But to do so, the function stop_per_cpu_kthreads() needs to change the loop from for_each_online_cpu() to for_each_possible_cpu() and remove the cpu_read_lock(), as the interface_lock can not be taken while the cpu locks are held. The only side effect of this change is that it may do some extra work, as the per_cpu variables of the offline CPUs would not be set anyway, and would simply be skipped in the loop. Remove unneeded "return;" in stop_kthread(). Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Tomas Glozar <tglozar@redhat.com> Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com> Cc: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lgoncalv@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240905113359.2b934242@gandalf.local.home Fixes: e88ed227 ("tracing/timerlat: Add user-space interface") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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