[tip:irq/urgent] genirq: Properly pair kobject_del() with kobject_add()

tip-bot for Michael Kelley
2019-08-19T14:01:24Z

Commit-ID: e1ee29624746fbf667f80e8ae3815a76e4d1bd5b
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/e1ee29624746fbf667f80e8ae3815a76e4d1bd5b
Author: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 23:53:53 +0000
Committer: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CommitDate: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 15:56:28 +0200

genirq: Properly pair kobject_del() with kobject_add()

If alloc_descs() fails before irq_sysfs_init() has run, free_desc() in the
cleanup path will call kobject_del() even though the kobject has not been
added with kobject_add().

Fix this by making the call to kobject_del() conditional on whether
irq_sysfs_init() has run.

This problem surfaced because commit aa30f47cf666 ("kobject: Add support
for default attribute groups to kobj_type") makes kobject_del() stricter
about pairing with kobject_add(). If the pairing is incorrrect, a WARNING
and backtrace occur in sysfs_remove_group() because there is no parent.

[ tglx: Add a comment to the code ]

Fixes: ecb3f394c5db ("genirq: Expose interrupt information through sysfs")
Signed-off-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1564703564-4116-1-git-send-email-mikelley@microsoft.com

---
kernel/irq/irqdesc.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c b/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c
index 9484e88dabc2..51f42f3caf09 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/irqdesc.c
@@ -437,8 +437,14 @@ static void free_desc(unsigned int irq)
*
* The sysfs entry must be serialized against a concurrent
* irq_sysfs_init() as well.
+ *
+ * If irq_sysfs_init() has not yet been invoked (early boot), then
+ * irq_kobj_base is NULL and the descriptor was never added.
+ * kobject_del() complains about a object with no parent, so make
+ * it conditional.
*/
- kobject_del(&desc->kobj);
+ if (irq_kobj_base)
+ kobject_del(&desc->kobj);
delete_irq_desc(irq);

/*