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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



  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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