linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.11 137/150] cpu/hotplug: Drop the device lock on error

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Date:   Mon, 12 Jun 2017 17:25:44 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH 4.11 137/150] cpu/hotplug: Drop the device lock on error

4.11-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>

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@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170602142714.3ogo25f2wbq6fjpj@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 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;
 }