Patch "mm/memory_hotplug: make __remove_section() never fail" has been added to the 4.19-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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

    mm/memory_hotplug: make __remove_section() never fail

to the 4.19-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:
     mm-memory_hotplug-make-__remove_section-never-fail.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


From foo@baz Tue 28 Jan 2020 02:32:10 PM CET
From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 10:50:07 +0100
Subject: mm/memory_hotplug: make __remove_section() never fail
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>, Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>, Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>, Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>, Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>, David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20200128095021.8076-11-david@redhat.com>

From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

commit 9d1d887d785b4fe0590bd3c5e71acaa3908044e2 upstream.

Let's just warn in case a section is not valid instead of failing to
remove somewhere in the middle of the process, returning an error that
will be mostly ignored by callers.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190409100148.24703-4-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Arun KS <arunks@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
Cc: Andrew Banman <andrew.banman@hpe.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Travis <mike.travis@hpe.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 mm/memory_hotplug.c |   22 +++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

--- a/mm/memory_hotplug.c
+++ b/mm/memory_hotplug.c
@@ -478,15 +478,15 @@ static void __remove_zone(struct zone *z
 	pgdat_resize_unlock(zone->zone_pgdat, &flags);
 }
 
-static int __remove_section(struct zone *zone, struct mem_section *ms,
-		unsigned long map_offset, struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
+static void __remove_section(struct zone *zone, struct mem_section *ms,
+			     unsigned long map_offset,
+			     struct vmem_altmap *altmap)
 {
 	unsigned long start_pfn;
 	int scn_nr;
-	int ret = -EINVAL;
 
-	if (!valid_section(ms))
-		return ret;
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!valid_section(ms)))
+		return;
 
 	unregister_memory_section(ms);
 
@@ -495,7 +495,6 @@ static int __remove_section(struct zone
 	__remove_zone(zone, start_pfn);
 
 	sparse_remove_one_section(zone, ms, map_offset, altmap);
-	return 0;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -515,7 +514,7 @@ int __remove_pages(struct zone *zone, un
 {
 	unsigned long i;
 	unsigned long map_offset = 0;
-	int sections_to_remove, ret = 0;
+	int sections_to_remove;
 
 	/* In the ZONE_DEVICE case device driver owns the memory region */
 	if (is_dev_zone(zone)) {
@@ -536,16 +535,13 @@ int __remove_pages(struct zone *zone, un
 		unsigned long pfn = phys_start_pfn + i*PAGES_PER_SECTION;
 
 		cond_resched();
-		ret = __remove_section(zone, __pfn_to_section(pfn), map_offset,
-				altmap);
+		__remove_section(zone, __pfn_to_section(pfn), map_offset,
+				 altmap);
 		map_offset = 0;
-		if (ret)
-			break;
 	}
 
 	set_zone_contiguous(zone);
-
-	return ret;
+	return 0;
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE */
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from david@redhat.com are

queue-4.19/mm-memory_hotplug-remove-memory-block-devices-before-arch_remove_memory.patch
queue-4.19/mm-hotplug-kill-is_dev_zone-usage-in-__remove_pages.patch
queue-4.19/mm-memory_hotplug-create-memory-block-devices-after-arch_add_memory.patch
queue-4.19/drivers-base-memory-pass-a-block_id-to-init_memory_block.patch
queue-4.19/drivers-base-memory.c-clean-up-relics-in-function-parameters.patch
queue-4.19/mm-memory_hotplug-update-a-comment-in-unregister_memory.patch
queue-4.19/mm-memory_hotplug-shrink-zones-when-offlining-memory.patch
queue-4.19/mm-memory_hotplug-make-unregister_memory_block_under_nodes-never-fail.patch
queue-4.19/mm-memunmap-don-t-access-uninitialized-memmap-in-memunmap_pages.patch
queue-4.19/mm-memory_hotplug-make-__remove_section-never-fail.patch
queue-4.19/mm-sparse-drop-pgdat_resize_lock-in-sparse_add-remove_one_section.patch
queue-4.19/mm-memory_hotplug-make-unregister_memory_section-never-fail.patch
queue-4.19/mm-memory_hotplug-release-memory-resource-after-arch_remove_memory.patch
queue-4.19/mm-memory_hotplug-add-nid-parameter-to-arch_remove_memory.patch
queue-4.19/powerpc-mm-fix-section-mismatch-warning.patch
queue-4.19/mm-memory_hotplug-allow-arch_remove_memory-without-config_memory_hotremove.patch
queue-4.19/mm-memory_hotplug-make-remove_memory-take-the-device_hotplug_lock.patch
queue-4.19/mm-memory_hotplug-make-__remove_pages-and-arch_remove_memory-never-fail.patch
queue-4.19/mm-memory_hotplug-fix-try_offline_node.patch
queue-4.19/mm-memory_hotplug-remove-zone-parameter-from-sparse_remove_one_section.patch
queue-4.19/drivers-base-memory.c-remove-an-unnecessary-check-on-nr_mem_sections.patch
queue-4.19/drivers-base-node.c-simplify-unregister_memory_block_under_nodes.patch
queue-4.19/s390x-mm-implement-arch_remove_memory.patch
queue-4.19/mm-sparse-pass-nid-instead-of-pgdat-to-sparse_add_one_section.patch