Fix a bug that can cause a lockup if a CPU is offline.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'perf-urgent-2020-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull perf fix from Ingo Molnar:
 "Fix an error handling bug that can cause a lockup if a CPU is offline
  (doh ...)"

* tag 'perf-urgent-2020-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf: Fix task_function_call() error handling

kernel/events/core.c

@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ static void remote_function(void *data)
  * retry due to any failures in smp_call_function_single(), such as if the
  * task_cpu() goes offline concurrently.
  *
- * returns @func return value or -ESRCH when the process isn't running
+ * returns @func return value or -ESRCH or -ENXIO when the process isn't running
  */
 static int
 task_function_call(struct task_struct *p, remote_function_f func, void *info)
@@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ task_function_call(struct task_struct *p, remote_function_f func, void *info)
 	for (;;) {
 		ret = smp_call_function_single(task_cpu(p), remote_function,
 					       &data, 1);
-		ret = !ret ? data.ret : -EAGAIN;
+		if (!ret)
+			ret = data.ret;
 
 		if (ret != -EAGAIN)
 			break;