Patch "powerpc/sysfs: Fix reference leak of cpu device_nodes present at boot" has been added to the 4.11-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

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

to the 4.11-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     powerpc-sysfs-fix-reference-leak-of-cpu-device_nodes-present-at-boot.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From e76ca27790a514590af782f83f6eae49e0ccf8c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 20:24:39 -0400
Subject: powerpc/sysfs: Fix reference leak of cpu device_nodes present at boot

From: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

commit e76ca27790a514590af782f83f6eae49e0ccf8c9 upstream.

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: f86e4718f24b ("driver/core: cpu: initialize of_node in cpu's device struture")
Signed-off-by: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c
@@ -710,6 +710,10 @@ static int register_cpu_online(unsigned
 	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(unsigne
 	}
 #endif
 	cacheinfo_cpu_offline(cpu);
+	of_node_put(s->of_node);
+	s->of_node = NULL;
 #endif /* CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */
 	return 0;
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com are

queue-4.11/powerpc-sysfs-fix-reference-leak-of-cpu-device_nodes-present-at-boot.patch
queue-4.11/of-fix-cpus-reference-leak-in-of_numa_parse_cpu_nodes.patch
queue-4.11/powerpc-pseries-fix-of_node_put-underflow-during-dlpar-remove.patch