linux-kernel - [GIT pull] cpu hotplug updates for 4.14

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1709040954580.2189@nanos>
Date:   Mon, 4 Sep 2017 09:56:21 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: [GIT pull] cpu hotplug updates for 4.14

Linus,

please pull the latest smp-hotplug-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git smp-hotplug-for-linus

A single fix to handle the removal of the first dynamic CPU hotplug state
correctly.

Thanks,

	tglx

------------------>
Ethan Barnes (1):
      smp/hotplug: Handle removal correctly in cpuhp_store_callbacks()


 kernel/cpu.c | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
index eee033134262..a88c29ab09be 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu.c
@@ -1252,7 +1252,17 @@ static int cpuhp_store_callbacks(enum cpuhp_state state, const char *name,
 	struct cpuhp_step *sp;
 	int ret = 0;
 
-	if (state == CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN || state == CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN) {
+	/*
+	 * If name is NULL, then the state gets removed.
+	 *
+	 * CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN and CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN are handed out on
+	 * the first allocation from these dynamic ranges, so the removal
+	 * would trigger a new allocation and clear the wrong (already
+	 * empty) state, leaving the callbacks of the to be cleared state
+	 * dangling, which causes wreckage on the next hotplug operation.
+	 */
+	if (name && (state == CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN ||
+		     state == CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN)) {
 		ret = cpuhp_reserve_state(state);
 		if (ret < 0)
 			return ret;