[PATCH v2 4/5] powerpc: pseries: only store the device node basename in full_name

[Rob Herring]

On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 4:26 AM, Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> Unfortunately this one has a bug, which only showed up after some stress
> testing.
>
> Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> writes:
>> With dependencies on full_name containing the entire device node path
>> removed, stop storing the full_name in nodes created by
>> dlpar_configure_connector() and pSeries_reconfig_add_node().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
>> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
>> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
>> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
>> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
>> ---
>> v2:
>> - Rework dlpar_parse_cc_node() to a single allocation and strcpy instead
>>   of kasprintf
>>
>>  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c    | 30 +++++++-----------------------
>>  arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c |  2 +-
>>  2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c
>> index 783f36364690..31a0615aeea1 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/dlpar.c
>> @@ -75,28 +75,17 @@ static struct property *dlpar_parse_cc_property(struct cc_workarea *ccwa)
>>       return prop;
>>  }
>>
>> -static struct device_node *dlpar_parse_cc_node(struct cc_workarea *ccwa,
>> -                                            const char *path)
>> +static struct device_node *(dlpar_parse_cc_node)(struct cc_workarea *ccwa)
>>  {
>>       struct device_node *dn;
>> -     char *name;
>> -
>> -     /* If parent node path is "/" advance path to NULL terminator to
>> -      * prevent double leading slashs in full_name.
>> -      */
>> -     if (!path[1])
>> -             path++;
>> +     const char *name = (const char *)ccwa + be32_to_cpu(ccwa->name_offset);
>>
>> -     dn = kzalloc(sizeof(*dn), GFP_KERNEL);
>> +     dn = kzalloc(sizeof(*dn) + strlen(name) + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
>>       if (!dn)
>>               return NULL;
>>
>> -     name = (char *)ccwa + be32_to_cpu(ccwa->name_offset);
>> -     dn->full_name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s/%s", path, name);
>> -     if (!dn->full_name) {
>> -             kfree(dn);
>> -             return NULL;
>> -     }
>> +     dn->full_name = (char *)(dn + 1);
>> +     strcpy((char *)dn->full_name, name);
>
> Allocating the full_name on the tail of the struct this way breaks the
> call to kfree(node->full_name) in of_node_release().
>
> eg:
>
>
> [  322.543581] Freeing node->full_name c0000007f4ed4090
> [  322.543583] =============================================================================
> [  322.543586] BUG kmalloc-192 (Tainted: G    B          ): Invalid object pointer 0xc0000007f4ed4090
> [  322.543588] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> [  322.543592] INFO: Slab 0xf000000001fd3b40 objects=292 used=72 fp=0xc0000007f4ed41a8 flags=0x13ffff800000101
> [  322.543595] CPU: 40 PID: 5 Comm: kworker/u192:0 Tainted: G    B           4.14.0-rc2-gcc-6.3.1-next-20170929-dirty #429
> [  322.543600] Workqueue: pseries hotplug workque pseries_hp_work_fn
> [  322.543602] Call Trace:
> [  322.543605] [c0000003f769f660] [c000000000a6b710] dump_stack+0xb0/0xf0 (unreliable)
> [  322.543609] [c0000003f769f6a0] [c00000000032cd5c] slab_err+0x9c/0xc0
> [  322.543612] [c0000003f769f790] [c00000000033440c] free_debug_processing+0x19c/0x490
> [  322.543615] [c0000003f769f860] [c0000000003349fc] __slab_free+0x2fc/0x4b0
> [  322.543619] [c0000003f769f960] [c0000000008f2484] of_node_release+0xe4/0x1a0
> [  322.543622] [c0000003f769fa00] [c000000000a71c04] kobject_put+0xd4/0x160
> [  322.543625] [c0000003f769fa80] [c0000000008f10c4] of_node_put+0x34/0x50
> [  322.543628] [c0000003f769fab0] [c0000000000c0248] dlpar_cpu_remove_by_index+0x108/0x130
> [  322.543631] [c0000003f769fb40] [c0000000000c166c] dlpar_cpu+0x27c/0x510
> [  322.543634] [c0000003f769fbf0] [c0000000000bb2d0] handle_dlpar_errorlog+0xc0/0x160
> [  322.543638] [c0000003f769fc60] [c0000000000bb3ac] pseries_hp_work_fn+0x3c/0xa0
> [  322.543641] [c0000003f769fc90] [c00000000012200c] process_one_work+0x2bc/0x560
> [  322.543645] [c0000003f769fd20] [c000000000122348] worker_thread+0x98/0x5d0
> [  322.543648] [c0000003f769fdc0] [c00000000012b4e4] kthread+0x164/0x1b0
> [  322.543651] [c0000003f769fe30] [c00000000000bae0] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x7c
>
>
> The obvious fix is just to allocate it separately as before, eg ~=:

Yes, I'll go back to doing 2 allocs like v1, but using kstrdup as was
also pointed out.

Rob