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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:35:05 +0200
From: Miquel Sabaté Solà <mikisabate@...il.com>
To: paul.walmsley@...ive.com
Cc: palmer@...belt.com, aou@...s.berkeley.edu, cuiyunhui@...edance.com,
sudeep.holla@....com, jeremy.linton@....com, sunilvl@...tanamicro.com,
linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: Prevent a bad reference count on CPU nodes
On dv., de set. 13 2024, Miquel Sabaté Solà wrote:
> When populating cache leaves we previously fetched the CPU device node
> at the very beginning. But when ACPI is enabled we go through a
> specific branch which returns early and does not call 'of_node_put' for
> the node that was acquired.
>
> Since we are not using a CPU device node for the ACPI code anyways, we
> can simply move the initialization of it just passed the ACPI block, and
> we are guaranteed to have an 'of_node_put' call for the acquired node.
> This prevents a bad reference count of the CPU device node.
>
> Moreover, the previous function did not check for errors when acquiring
> the device node, so a return -ENOENT has been added for that case.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miquel Sabaté Solà <mikisabate@...il.com>
> ---
> I was wondering if this should also be sent to stable, but I have not seen
> a report on it, and this is not responsible for an oops or anything like that.
> So in the end I decided not to, but maybe you consider otherwise.
>
> arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c | 7 +++++--
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c
> index d6c108c50cba..d32dfdba083e 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c
> @@ -75,8 +75,7 @@ int populate_cache_leaves(unsigned int cpu)
> {
> struct cpu_cacheinfo *this_cpu_ci = get_cpu_cacheinfo(cpu);
> struct cacheinfo *this_leaf = this_cpu_ci->info_list;
> - struct device_node *np = of_cpu_device_node_get(cpu);
> - struct device_node *prev = NULL;
> + struct device_node *np, *prev;
> int levels = 1, level = 1;
>
> if (!acpi_disabled) {
> @@ -100,6 +99,10 @@ int populate_cache_leaves(unsigned int cpu)
> return 0;
> }
>
> + np = of_cpu_device_node_get(cpu);
> + if (!np)
> + return -ENOENT;
> +
> if (of_property_read_bool(np, "cache-size"))
> ci_leaf_init(this_leaf++, CACHE_TYPE_UNIFIED, level);
> if (of_property_read_bool(np, "i-cache-size"))
Gently ping :)
Could you take a look at this fix?
Thanks,
Miquel
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