Patch "hotplug: Make register and unregister notifier API symmetric" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

hotplug: Make register and unregister notifier API symmetric

to the 4.4-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:
hotplug-make-register-and-unregister-notifier-api-symmetric.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 14:54:38 +0100
Subject: hotplug: Make register and unregister notifier API symmetric

From: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>

commit 777c6e0daebb3fcefbbd6f620410a946b07ef6d0 upstream.

Yu Zhao has noticed that __unregister_cpu_notifier only unregisters its notifiers when HOTPLUG_CPU=y while the registration might succeed even when HOTPLUG_CPU=n if MODULE is enabled. This means that e.g. zswap might keep a stale notifier on the list on the manual clean up during the pool tear down and thus corrupt the list. Resulting in the following

[  144.964346] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff880658a2be78
[  144.971337] IP: [<ffffffffa290b00b>] raw_notifier_chain_register+0x1b/0x40
<snipped>
[  145.122628] Call Trace:
[  145.125086]  [<ffffffffa28e5cf8>] __register_cpu_notifier+0x18/0x20
[  145.131350]  [<ffffffffa2a5dd73>] zswap_pool_create+0x273/0x400
[  145.137268]  [<ffffffffa2a5e0fc>] __zswap_param_set+0x1fc/0x300
[  145.143188]  [<ffffffffa2944c1d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
[  145.149018]  [<ffffffffa2908798>] ? kernel_param_lock+0x28/0x30
[  145.154940]  [<ffffffffa2a3e8cf>] ? __might_fault+0x4f/0xa0
[  145.160511]  [<ffffffffa2a5e237>] zswap_compressor_param_set+0x17/0x20
[  145.167035]  [<ffffffffa2908d3c>] param_attr_store+0x5c/0xb0
[  145.172694]  [<ffffffffa290848d>] module_attr_store+0x1d/0x30
[  145.178443]  [<ffffffffa2b2b41f>] sysfs_kf_write+0x4f/0x70
[  145.183925]  [<ffffffffa2b2a5b9>] kernfs_fop_write+0x149/0x180
[  145.189761]  [<ffffffffa2a99248>] __vfs_write+0x18/0x40
[  145.194982]  [<ffffffffa2a9a412>] vfs_write+0xb2/0x1a0
[  145.200122]  [<ffffffffa2a9a732>] SyS_write+0x52/0xa0
[  145.205177]  [<ffffffffa2ff4d97>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x17

This can be even triggered manually by changing /sys/module/zswap/parameters/compressor multiple times.

Fix this issue by making unregister APIs symmetric to the register so there are no surprises.

---
 include/linux/cpu.h |   15 ++++-----------
 kernel/cpu.c        |    3 +--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

@@ -131,22 +131,16 @@ enum {
 		{ .notifier_call = fn, .priority = pri };	\
 	__register_cpu_notifier(&fn##_nb);			\
 }
-#else /* #if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU) || !defined(MODULE) */
-#define cpu_notifier(fn, pri)	do { (void)(fn); } while (0)
-#define __cpu_notifier(fn, pri)	do { (void)(fn); } while (0)
-#endif /* #else #if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU) || !defined(MODULE) */
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
 extern int register_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
 extern int __register_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
 extern void unregister_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
 extern void __unregister_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
-#else
 
-#ifndef MODULE
-extern int register_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
-extern int __register_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
-#else
+#else /* #if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU) || !defined(MODULE) */
+#define cpu_notifier(fn, pri)	do { (void)(fn); } while (0)
+#define __cpu_notifier(fn, pri)	do { (void)(fn); } while (0)
+
 static inline int register_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
 {
 	return 0;

@@ -156,7 +150,6 @@ static inline int __register_cpu_notifie
 {
 	return 0;
 }
-#endif
 
 static inline void unregister_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
 {

@@ -223,8 +223,6 @@ static int cpu_notify(unsigned long val,
 	return __cpu_notify(val, v, -1, NULL);
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
-
 static void cpu_notify_nofail(unsigned long val, void *v)
 {
 	BUG_ON(cpu_notify(val, v));

@@ -246,6 +244,7 @@ void __unregister_cpu_notifier(struct no
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__unregister_cpu_notifier);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
 /**
  * clear_tasks_mm_cpumask - Safely clear tasks' mm_cpumask for a CPU
  * @cpu: a CPU id

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/hotplug-make-register-and-unregister-notifier-api-symmetric.patch