This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
cpu/hotplug: Drop the device lock on error
to the 4.11-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
cpu-hotplug-drop-the-device-lock-on-error.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 40da1b11f01e43aad1aa6cea64681b6125e8a2a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2017 16:27:14 +0200
Subject: cpu/hotplug: Drop the device lock on error
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 40da1b11f01e43aad1aa6cea64681b6125e8a2a7 upstream.
If a custom CPU target is specified and that one is not available _or_
can't be interrupted then the code returns to userland without dropping a
lock as notices by lockdep:
|echo 133 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu7/hotplug/target
| ================================================
| [ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ]
| ------------------------------------------------
| bash/503 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!
| 1 lock held by bash/503:
| #0: (device_hotplug_lock){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff815b5650>] lock_device_hotplug_sysfs+0x10/0x40
So release the lock then.
Fixes: 757c989b9994 ("cpu/hotplug: Make target state writeable")
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170602142714.3ogo25f2wbq6fjpj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/cpu.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -1656,13 +1656,13 @@ static ssize_t write_cpuhp_target(struct
ret = !sp->name || sp->cant_stop ? -EINVAL : 0;
mutex_unlock(&cpuhp_state_mutex);
if (ret)
- return ret;
+ goto out;
if (st->state < target)
ret = do_cpu_up(dev->id, target);
else
ret = do_cpu_down(dev->id, target);
-
+out:
unlock_device_hotplug();
return ret ? ret : count;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.11/cpu-hotplug-drop-the-device-lock-on-error.patch