On Sat, Aug 01, 2015 at 12:57:18PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> > > + if (stop_work_pending(stopper1) != stop_work_pending(stopper2))
> > > +         goto unlock;
> >
> > You could DoS/false positive this by running stop_one_cpu() in a loop,
> > and thereby 'always' having work pending on one but not the other.
> 
> IIRC no. I am pretty sure stop_one_cpu() doesn't use stopper->stop_work,
> only stop_machine() does.

Urgh, I missed you were testing the cpu_stopper::stop_work not the
cpu_stopper::works list.


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