Commit e76ca277 authored Apr 17, 2017 by Tyrel Datwyler Committed by Michael Ellerman Apr 25, 2017

powerpc/sysfs: Fix reference leak of cpu device_nodes present at boot

For CPUs present at boot each logical CPU acquires a reference to the
associated device node of the core. This happens in register_cpu() which
is called by topology_init(). The result of this is that we end up with
a reference held by each thread of the core. However, these references
are never freed if the CPU core is DLPAR removed.

This patch fixes the reference leaks by acquiring and releasing the references
in the CPU hotplug callbacks un/register_cpu_online(). With this patch symmetric
reference counting is observed with both CPUs present at boot, and those DLPAR
added after boot.

Fixes: f86e4718 ("driver/core: cpu: initialize of_node in cpu's device struture")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.12+
Signed-off-by: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>

parent 68baf692

arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c

+6 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -710,6 +710,10 @@ static int register_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu)
		struct device_attribute attrs, pmc_attrs;
		int i, nattrs;

		/* For cpus present at boot a reference was already grabbed in register_cpu() */
		if (!s->of_node)
		s->of_node = of_get_cpu_node(cpu, NULL);

		#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
		if (cpu_has_feature(CPU_FTR_SMT))
		device_create_file(s, &dev_attr_smt_snooze_delay);
		@@ -864,6 +868,8 @@ static int unregister_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu)
		}
		#endif
		cacheinfo_cpu_offline(cpu);
		of_node_put(s->of_node);
		s->of_node = NULL;
		#endif /* CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */
		return 0;
		}