[PATCH 4.9 82/84] ACPI / APEI: Add missing synchronize_rcu() on NOTIFY_SCI removal

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-08-28T08:43:27Z

From: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>

commit 7d64f82cceb21e6d95db312d284f5f195e120154 upstream.

When removing a GHES device notified by SCI, list_del_rcu() is used,
ghes_remove() should call synchronize_rcu() before it goes on to call
kfree(ghes), otherwise concurrent RCU readers may still hold this list
entry after it has been freed.

Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Fixes: 81e88fdc432a (ACPI, APEI, Generic Hardware Error Source POLL/IRQ/NMI notification type support)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c
@@ -1072,6 +1072,7 @@ static int ghes_remove(struct platform_d
if (list_empty(&ghes_sci))
unregister_acpi_hed_notifier(&ghes_notifier_sci);
mutex_unlock(&ghes_list_mutex);
+ synchronize_rcu();
break;
case ACPI_HEST_NOTIFY_NMI:
ghes_nmi_remove(ghes);