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hotplug: Make register and unregister notifier API symmetric
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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: 47e627b ("[PATCH] hotplug: Allow modules to use the cpu hotplug notifiers even if !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU")
Reported-and-tested-by: Yu Zhao <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Streetman <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
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Michal Hocko authored and KAGA-KOKO committed Dec 8, 2016
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15 changes: 4 additions & 11 deletions include/linux/cpu.h
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Expand Up @@ -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;
Expand All @@ -118,7 +112,6 @@ static inline int __register_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
{
return 0;
}
#endif

static inline void unregister_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
{
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion kernel/cpu.c
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Expand Up @@ -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)
Expand All @@ -676,6 +675,7 @@ void __unregister_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
}
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
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