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 v3 2/3] powerpc/powernv: fix preempt count leak in pnv_kexec_wait_secondaries_down
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2026 13:59:11 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260605082912.305100-3-aboorvad@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260605082912.305100-1-aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
pnv_kexec_wait_secondaries_down() calls get_cpu() to obtain the current
CPU id but never calls the matching put_cpu(), leaking one
preempt_disable() nesting level on every invocation.
In practice the imbalance does not trigger a visible splat because the
kexec teardown 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.
The function only needs the current CPU id, and this path runs with
interrupts disabled and the CPU pinned, so the preempt_disable()
side-effect of get_cpu() is unnecessary. Replace it with
raw_smp_processor_id().
Fixes: 298b34d7d578 ("powerpc/powernv: Fix kexec races going back to OPAL")
Signed-off-by: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
index 4dbb47ddbdcc..06ed5e2aa265 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/setup.c
@@ -396,7 +396,8 @@ static void pnv_kexec_wait_secondaries_down(void)
{
int my_cpu, i, notified = -1;
- my_cpu = get_cpu();
+ /* Called with interrupts disabled, so the CPU is pinned. */
+ my_cpu = raw_smp_processor_id();
for_each_online_cpu(i) {
uint8_t status;
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-06-05 8:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-05 8:29 [PATCH v3 0/3] powerpc: fix preempt_count imbalances in perf and kexec paths Aboorva Devarajan
2026-06-05 8:29 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] powerpc/perf: fix preempt count underflow in fsl_emb_pmu_del Aboorva Devarajan
2026-06-05 8:29 ` Aboorva Devarajan [this message]
2026-06-05 8:29 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] powerpc/kexec: fix double get_cpu() imbalance in kexec_prepare_cpus Aboorva Devarajan
2026-06-05 11:03 ` Shrikanth Hegde
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