powerpc/perf: Fix IMC initialization crash
authorAnju T Sudhakar <anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 05:59:41 +0000 (11:29 +0530)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Fri, 13 Oct 2017 09:08:40 +0000 (20:08 +1100)
Panic observed with latest firmware, and upstream kernel:

 NIP init_imc_pmu+0x8c/0xcf0
 LR  init_imc_pmu+0x2f8/0xcf0
 Call Trace:
   init_imc_pmu+0x2c8/0xcf0 (unreliable)
   opal_imc_counters_probe+0x300/0x400
   platform_drv_probe+0x64/0x110
   driver_probe_device+0x3d8/0x580
   __driver_attach+0x14c/0x1a0
   bus_for_each_dev+0x8c/0xf0
   driver_attach+0x34/0x50
   bus_add_driver+0x298/0x350
   driver_register+0x9c/0x180
   __platform_driver_register+0x5c/0x70
   opal_imc_driver_init+0x2c/0x40
   do_one_initcall+0x64/0x1d0
   kernel_init_freeable+0x280/0x374
   kernel_init+0x24/0x160
   ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x74

While registering nest imc at init, cpu-hotplug callback
nest_pmu_cpumask_init() makes an OPAL call to stop the engine. And if
the OPAL call fails, imc_common_cpuhp_mem_free() is invoked to cleanup
memory and cpuhotplug setup.

But when cleaning up the attribute group, we are dereferencing the
attribute element array without checking whether the backing element
is not NULL. This causes the kernel panic.

Add a check for the backing element prior to dereferencing the
attribute element, to handle the failing case gracefully.

Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar <anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Pridhiviraj Paidipeddi <ppaidipe@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Trim change log]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
arch/powerpc/perf/imc-pmu.c

index 39a0203fd8a5e168b8810bd33ccd35f9b974dd84..88126245881b3f8e500ab099bbfa4ebba8bf03d9 100644 (file)
@@ -1176,7 +1176,8 @@ static void imc_common_cpuhp_mem_free(struct imc_pmu *pmu_ptr)
        }
 
        /* Only free the attr_groups which are dynamically allocated  */
-       kfree(pmu_ptr->attr_groups[IMC_EVENT_ATTR]->attrs);
+       if (pmu_ptr->attr_groups[IMC_EVENT_ATTR])
+               kfree(pmu_ptr->attr_groups[IMC_EVENT_ATTR]->attrs);
        kfree(pmu_ptr->attr_groups[IMC_EVENT_ATTR]);
        kfree(pmu_ptr);
        return;