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    hotplug: Make register and unregister notifier API symmetric · 56eaecc8
    Michal Hocko authored
    commit 777c6e0d upstream.
    
    Yu Zhao has noticed that __unregister_cpu_notifier only unregisters its
    notifiers when HOTPLUG_CPU=y while the registration might succeed even
    when HOTPLUG_CPU=n if MODULE is enabled. This means that e.g. zswap
    might keep a stale notifier on the list on the manual clean up during
    the pool tear down and thus corrupt the list. Resulting in the following
    
    [  144.964346] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff880658a2be78
    [  144.971337] IP: [<ffffffffa290b00b>] raw_notifier_chain_register+0x1b/0x40
    <snipped>
    [  145.122628] Call Trace:
    [  145.125086]  [<ffffffffa28e5cf8>] __register_cpu_notifier+0x18/0x20
    [  145.131350]  [<ffffffffa2a5dd73>] zswap_pool_create+0x273/0x400
    [  145.137268]  [<ffffffffa2a5e0fc>] __zswap_param_set+0x1fc/0x300
    [  145.143188]  [<ffffffffa2944c1d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
    [  145.149018]  [<ffffffffa2908798>] ? kernel_param_lock+0x28/0x30
    [  145.154940]  [<ffffffffa2a3e8cf>] ? __might_fault+0x4f/0xa0
    [  145.160511]  [<ffffffffa2a5e237>] zswap_compressor_param_set+0x17/0x20
    [  145.167035]  [<ffffffffa2908d3c>] param_attr_store+0x5c/0xb0
    [  145.172694]  [<ffffffffa290848d>] module_attr_store+0x1d/0x30
    [  145.178443]  [<ffffffffa2b2b41f>] sysfs_kf_write+0x4f/0x70
    [  145.183925]  [<ffffffffa2b2a5b9>] kernfs_fop_write+0x149/0x180
    [  145.189761]  [<ffffffffa2a99248>] __vfs_write+0x18/0x40
    [  145.194982]  [<ffffffffa2a9a412>] vfs_write+0xb2/0x1a0
    [  145.200122]  [<ffffffffa2a9a732>] SyS_write+0x52/0xa0
    [  145.205177]  [<ffffffffa2ff4d97>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x17
    
    This can be even triggered manually by changing
    /sys/module/zswap/parameters/compressor multiple times.
    
    Fix this issue by making unregister APIs symmetric to the register so
    there are no surprises.
    
    Fixes: 47e627bc
    
     ("[PATCH] hotplug: Allow modules to use the cpu hotplug notifiers even if !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU")
    Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarYu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
    Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161207135438.4310-1-mhocko@kernel.org
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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