From: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
To: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>,
Christophe Leroy <chleroy@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>,
Ritesh Harjani <ritesh.list@gmail.com>,
Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/kexec: fix double get_cpu() imbalance in kexec_prepare_cpus
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 11:57:43 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260603062743.1152253-4-aboorvad@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260603062743.1152253-1-aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
kexec_prepare_cpus_wait() calls get_cpu() internally to obtain the
current CPU id. kexec_prepare_cpus() calls kexec_prepare_cpus_wait()
twice -- once for KEXEC_STATE_IRQS_OFF and once for
KEXEC_STATE_REAL_MODE -- but only issues a single put_cpu() at the end,
leaving preempt_count elevated by one extra nesting level.
In practice the imbalance does not trigger a 'scheduling while atomic'
splat because the kexec path is a one-way trip: IRQs are already
disabled, no schedule() occurs after the leak, and
default_machine_kexec() overwrites preempt_count with HARDIRQ_OFFSET
before jumping into kexec_sequence() which never returns. However the
bookkeeping is still wrong.
kexec_prepare_cpus() calls local_irq_disable()/hard_irq_disable()
before invoking kexec_prepare_cpus_wait(), so the CPU is already pinned
and the get_cpu()/put_cpu() preempt_disable() bracketing is unnecessary.
Only the current CPU id is needed, so replace get_cpu() with
smp_processor_id() and drop the now-unneeded put_cpu().
Fixes: 1fc711f7ffb0 ("powerpc/kexec: Fix race in kexec shutdown")
Signed-off-by: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c
index 825ab8a88f18..d7bdc362d497 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kexec/core_64.c
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ static void kexec_prepare_cpus_wait(int wait_state)
int my_cpu, i, notified=-1;
hw_breakpoint_disable();
- my_cpu = get_cpu();
+ my_cpu = smp_processor_id();
/* Make sure each CPU has at least made it to the state we need.
*
* FIXME: There is a (slim) chance of a problem if not all of the CPUs
@@ -267,8 +267,6 @@ static void kexec_prepare_cpus(void)
/* after we tell the others to go down */
if (ppc_md.kexec_cpu_down)
ppc_md.kexec_cpu_down(0, 0);
-
- put_cpu();
}
#else /* ! SMP */
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-03 6:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-03 6:27 [PATCH v2 0/3] powerpc: fix preempt_count imbalances in perf and kexec paths Aboorva Devarajan
2026-06-03 6:27 ` [PATCH 1/3] powerpc/perf: fix preempt count underflow in fsl_emb_pmu_del Aboorva Devarajan
2026-06-03 6:27 ` [PATCH 2/3] powerpc/powernv: fix preempt count leak in pnv_kexec_wait_secondaries_down Aboorva Devarajan
2026-06-03 6:27 ` Aboorva Devarajan [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2026-05-18 5:08 [PATCH 0/3] powerpc: fix preempt_count imbalances in perf and kexec paths Aboorva Devarajan
2026-05-18 5:08 ` [PATCH 3/3] powerpc/kexec: fix double get_cpu() imbalance in kexec_prepare_cpus Aboorva Devarajan
2026-05-18 6:02 ` Shrikanth Hegde
2026-06-03 6:14 ` Aboorva Devarajan
2026-06-03 6:16 ` Shrikanth Hegde
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