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Thomas Gleixner committed 4b0c0f294f6
tick: Cleanup NOHZ per cpu data on cpu down Prarit reported a crash on CPU offline/online. The reason is that on CPU down the NOHZ related per cpu data of the dead cpu is not cleaned up. If at cpu online an interrupt happens before the per cpu tick device is registered the irq_enter() check potentially sees stale data and dereferences a NULL pointer. Cleanup the data after the cpu is dead. Reported-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.LFD.2.02.1305031451561.2886@ionos Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>