[PATCH] powerpc: Don't Oops when accessing /proc/powerpc/lparcfg without hypervisor

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Aug 27 16:41:05 EST 2013


/proc/powerpc/lparcfg is an ancient facility (though still actively used)
which allows access to some informations relative to the partition when
running underneath a PAPR compliant hypervisor.

It makes no sense on non-pseries machines. However, currently, not only
can it be created on these if the kernel has pseries support, but accessing
it on such a machine will crash due to trying to do hypervisor calls.

In fact, it should also not do HV calls on older pseries that didn't have
an hypervisor either.

Finally, it has the plumbing to be a module but is a "bool" Kconfig option.

This fixes the whole lot by turning it into a machine_device_initcall
that is only created on pseries, and adding the necessary hypervisor
check before calling the H_GET_EM_PARMS hypercall

CC: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
---

Next I'll move it to arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries but in a separate
patch.

 arch/powerpc/kernel/lparcfg.c | 22 +++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/lparcfg.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/lparcfg.c
index d92f387..e2a0a16 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/lparcfg.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/lparcfg.c
@@ -35,7 +35,13 @@
 #include <asm/vdso_datapage.h>
 #include <asm/vio.h>
 #include <asm/mmu.h>
+#include <asm/machdep.h>
 
+
+/*
+ * This isn't a module but we expose that to userspace
+ * via /proc so leave the definitions here
+ */
 #define MODULE_VERS "1.9"
 #define MODULE_NAME "lparcfg"
 
@@ -418,7 +424,8 @@ static void parse_em_data(struct seq_file *m)
 {
 	unsigned long retbuf[PLPAR_HCALL_BUFSIZE];
 
-	if (plpar_hcall(H_GET_EM_PARMS, retbuf) == H_SUCCESS)
+	if (firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_LPAR) &&
+	    plpar_hcall(H_GET_EM_PARMS, retbuf) == H_SUCCESS)
 		seq_printf(m, "power_mode_data=%016lx\n", retbuf[0]);
 }
 
@@ -677,7 +684,6 @@ static int lparcfg_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 }
 
 static const struct file_operations lparcfg_fops = {
-	.owner		= THIS_MODULE,
 	.read		= seq_read,
 	.write		= lparcfg_write,
 	.open		= lparcfg_open,
@@ -699,14 +705,4 @@ static int __init lparcfg_init(void)
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
-
-static void __exit lparcfg_cleanup(void)
-{
-	remove_proc_subtree("powerpc/lparcfg", NULL);
-}
-
-module_init(lparcfg_init);
-module_exit(lparcfg_cleanup);
-MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Interface for LPAR configuration data");
-MODULE_AUTHOR("Dave Engebretsen");
-MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+machine_device_initcall(pseries, lparcfg_init);




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