[mainline][DLPAR][Oops] OF: ERROR: Bad of_node_put() on /cpus

[Tyrel Datwyler]

On 09/20/2017 04:39 AM, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org> writes:
> 
>> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 6:04 AM, abdul <abdhalee at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Mainline kernel panics during DLPAR CPU add/remove operation.
>>>
>>> Machine Type: Power8 PowerVM LPAR
>>> kernel 4.13.0
>>
>> Did 4.12 work or when was it last working? I'm not seeing anything
>> recent in the DT code that looks suspicious.
> 
> I'm pretty sure it's:
> 
> int dlpar_attach_node(struct device_node *dn, struct device_node *parent)
> {
> 	int rc;
> 
> 	dn->parent = parent;
> 
> 	rc = of_attach_node(dn);
> 	if (rc) {
> 		printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to add device node %pOF\n", dn);
> 		return rc;
> 	}
> 
> 	of_node_put(dn->parent);
> HERE    ^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> 	return 0;
> }
> 
> 
> Prior to 215ee763f8cb ("powerpc: pseries: remove dlpar_attach_node
> dependency on full path"), we re-looked up the parent, and got another
> reference on it. That meant the put before the return there was correct.
> But now it's not because the caller has a reference to parent but it's
> not ours to drop.
> 
> Testing a fix, will report back.

So, that patch slipped past me. Not only is the parent reference not ours to drop, but
when I went and looked at dlpar_cpu_add() I also noticed that of_node_put() was done on
the parent prior to the call to dlpar_attach_node(). With the addition of "parent" to the
dlpar_attach_node() parameter list dlpar_cpu_add() needs to be fixed up to hold the
"parent" reference until after dlpar_attach_node() returns.

-Tyrel

> 
> cheers
>