Re: [PATCH] thermal: add thermal_zone_remove_device_groups()

[Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>]

Hey Yasuaki San,

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 04:47:08PM -0500, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote:
> When offlining all cores on a CPU, the following system panic
> occurs:
> 
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
> IP: strlen+0x0/0x20
> <snip>
> Call Trace:
>  ? kernfs_name_hash+0x17/0x80
>  kernfs_find_ns+0x3f/0xd0
>  kernfs_remove_by_name_ns+0x36/0xa0
>  remove_files.isra.1+0x36/0x70
>  sysfs_remove_group+0x44/0x90
>  sysfs_remove_groups+0x2e/0x50
>  device_remove_attrs+0x5e/0x90
>  device_del+0x1ea/0x350
>  device_unregister+0x1a/0x60
>  thermal_zone_device_unregister+0x1f2/0x210
>  pkg_thermal_cpu_offline+0x14f/0x1a0 [x86_pkg_temp_thermal]
>  ? kzalloc.constprop.2+0x10/0x10 [x86_pkg_temp_thermal]
>  cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x8d/0x3f0
>  cpuhp_down_callbacks+0x42/0x80
>  cpuhp_thread_fun+0x8b/0xf0
>  smpboot_thread_fn+0x110/0x160
>  kthread+0x101/0x140
>  ? sort_range+0x30/0x30
>  ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90
>  ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30
> 
> thermal_zone_create_device_group() sets attribute_groups in
> thermal_zone_attribute_groups[] to tz->device.groups. But these
> attributes_groups do not have name argument.
> 
> So when offlining all cores on CPU and executing
> thermal_zone_device_unregister(), the panic occurs in strlen()
> called from kernfs_name_hash() because name argument is NULL.
> 
> The patch adds thermal_zone_remove_device_groups() to free
> tz->device.groups and set NULL pointer.
> 

Thanks for finding this and sending a fix. Overall I am OK with the
patch, but I have some questions, as follows.

> Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
> CC: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
> CC: Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c  | 3 ++-
>  drivers/thermal/thermal_core.h  | 1 +
>  drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c | 6 ++++++

First question is, are you seeing same problem with cooling devices ?
They follow same strategy, of setting the groups property, and the
cooling device groups also have no name.

>  3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> index 641faab..926e385 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> @@ -1251,6 +1251,7 @@ struct thermal_zone_device *
> 
>  unregister:
>  	release_idr(&thermal_tz_idr, &thermal_idr_lock, tz->id);
> +	thermal_zone_remove_device_groups(tz);
>  	device_unregister(&tz->device);
>  	return ERR_PTR(result);
>  }
> @@ -1315,8 +1316,8 @@ void thermal_zone_device_unregister(struct thermal_zone_device *tz)
>  	release_idr(&thermal_tz_idr, &thermal_idr_lock, tz->id);
>  	idr_destroy(&tz->idr);
>  	mutex_destroy(&tz->lock);
> +	thermal_zone_remove_device_groups(tz);
>  	device_unregister(&tz->device);
> -	kfree(tz->device.groups);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(thermal_zone_device_unregister);
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.h b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.h
> index 2412b37..e3a60db 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.h
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.h
> @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ void thermal_zone_device_unbind_exception(struct thermal_zone_device *,
>  int thermal_build_list_of_policies(char *buf);
> 
>  /* sysfs I/F */
> +void thermal_zone_remove_device_groups(struct thermal_zone_device *tz);
>  int thermal_zone_create_device_groups(struct thermal_zone_device *, int);
>  void thermal_cooling_device_setup_sysfs(struct thermal_cooling_device *);
>  /* used only at binding time */
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> index a694de9..3dfd29b 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_sysfs.c
> @@ -605,6 +605,12 @@ static int create_trip_attrs(struct thermal_zone_device *tz, int mask)
>  	return 0;
>  }
> 
> +void thermal_zone_remove_device_groups(struct thermal_zone_device *tz)
> +{
> +	kfree(tz->device.groups);

OK. This part needs to be done regardless

> +	tz->device.groups = NULL;

This almost defeats the purpose of the effort to put all properties to
device.groups, as we need to care about releasing them. 

I guess the problem is we cannot keep the same sysfs entries if we set a
name on the thermal device groups. That would break userspace. And if we
do not set, we need to care about releasing them.

Almost feel like we might consider patching sysfs core.
Or maybe find another way to setup the device groups for thermal
devices.

> +}
> +
>  int thermal_zone_create_device_groups(struct thermal_zone_device *tz,
>  				      int mask)
>  {
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1
>