The patch titled
Subject: hotplug: make register and unregister notifier API symmetric
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
hotplug-make-register-and-unregister-notifier-api-symmetric.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/hotplug-make-register-and-unregister-notifier-api-symmetric.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/hotplug-make-register-and-unregister-notifier-api-symmetric.patch
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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: hotplug: make register and unregister notifier API symmetric
Yu Zhao has noticed that __unregister_cpu_notifier() only unregisters its
notifiers when HOTPLUG_CPU=y while the registration might succeed even
when HOTPLUG_CPU=n if MODULE is enabled. This means that e.g. zswap
might keep a stale notifier on the list on the manual clean up during the
pool tear down and thus corrupt the list. Resulting in the following
[ 144.964346] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff880658a2be78
[ 144.971337] IP: [<ffffffffa290b00b>] raw_notifier_chain_register+0x1b/0x40
<snipped>
[ 145.122628] Call Trace:
[ 145.125086] [<ffffffffa28e5cf8>] __register_cpu_notifier+0x18/0x20
[ 145.131350] [<ffffffffa2a5dd73>] zswap_pool_create+0x273/0x400
[ 145.137268] [<ffffffffa2a5e0fc>] __zswap_param_set+0x1fc/0x300
[ 145.143188] [<ffffffffa2944c1d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
[ 145.149018] [<ffffffffa2908798>] ? kernel_param_lock+0x28/0x30
[ 145.154940] [<ffffffffa2a3e8cf>] ? __might_fault+0x4f/0xa0
[ 145.160511] [<ffffffffa2a5e237>] zswap_compressor_param_set+0x17/0x20
[ 145.167035] [<ffffffffa2908d3c>] param_attr_store+0x5c/0xb0
[ 145.172694] [<ffffffffa290848d>] module_attr_store+0x1d/0x30
[ 145.178443] [<ffffffffa2b2b41f>] sysfs_kf_write+0x4f/0x70
[ 145.183925] [<ffffffffa2b2a5b9>] kernfs_fop_write+0x149/0x180
[ 145.189761] [<ffffffffa2a99248>] __vfs_write+0x18/0x40
[ 145.194982] [<ffffffffa2a9a412>] vfs_write+0xb2/0x1a0
[ 145.200122] [<ffffffffa2a9a732>] SyS_write+0x52/0xa0
[ 145.205177] [<ffffffffa2ff4d97>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x17
This can be even triggered manually by changing
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/compressor multiple times.
Fix this issue by making unregister APIs symmetric to the register so
there are no surprises.
Fixes: 47e627bc8c9a ("[PATCH] hotplug: Allow modules to use the cpu hotplug notifiers even if !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161207135438.4310-1-mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [zswap requires for 4.3+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/cpu.h | 15 ++++-----------
kernel/cpu.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff -puN include/linux/cpu.h~hotplug-make-register-and-unregister-notifier-api-symmetric include/linux/cpu.h
--- a/include/linux/cpu.h~hotplug-make-register-and-unregister-notifier-api-symmetric
+++ a/include/linux/cpu.h
@@ -93,22 +93,16 @@ extern bool cpuhp_tasks_frozen;
{ .notifier_call = fn, .priority = pri }; \
__register_cpu_notifier(&fn##_nb); \
}
-#else /* #if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU) || !defined(MODULE) */
-#define cpu_notifier(fn, pri) do { (void)(fn); } while (0)
-#define __cpu_notifier(fn, pri) do { (void)(fn); } while (0)
-#endif /* #else #if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU) || !defined(MODULE) */
-#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
extern int register_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
extern int __register_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
extern void unregister_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
extern void __unregister_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
-#else
-#ifndef MODULE
-extern int register_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
-extern int __register_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
-#else
+#else /* #if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU) || !defined(MODULE) */
+#define cpu_notifier(fn, pri) do { (void)(fn); } while (0)
+#define __cpu_notifier(fn, pri) do { (void)(fn); } while (0)
+
static inline int register_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
{
return 0;
@@ -118,7 +112,6 @@ static inline int __register_cpu_notifie
{
return 0;
}
-#endif
static inline void unregister_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
{
diff -puN kernel/cpu.c~hotplug-make-register-and-unregister-notifier-api-symmetric kernel/cpu.c
--- a/kernel/cpu.c~hotplug-make-register-and-unregister-notifier-api-symmetric
+++ a/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -659,7 +659,6 @@ void __init cpuhp_threads_init(void)
kthread_unpark(this_cpu_read(cpuhp_state.thread));
}
-#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_cpu_notifier);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__register_cpu_notifier);
void unregister_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
@@ -676,6 +675,7 @@ void __unregister_cpu_notifier(struct no
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__unregister_cpu_notifier);
+#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
/**
* clear_tasks_mm_cpumask - Safely clear tasks' mm_cpumask for a CPU
* @cpu: a CPU id
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mhocko@xxxxxxxx are
mm-compaction-allow-compaction-for-gfp_nofs-requests.patch
mm-mempolicy-clean-up-__gfp_thisnode-confusion-in-policy_zonelist.patch
hotplug-make-register-and-unregister-notifier-api-symmetric.patch
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