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commit 2ed6edd33a upstream.
Under rare circumstances, task_function_call() can repeatedly fail and
cause a soft lockup.
There is a slight race where the process is no longer running on the cpu
we targeted by the time remote_function() runs. The code will simply
try again. If we are very unlucky, this will continue to fail, until a
watchdog fires. This can happen in a heavily loaded, multi-core virtual
machine.
Reported-by: syzbot+bb4935a5c09b5ff79940@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414222920.121401-1-brho@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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