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Anju T Sudhakar 0d8ba16278 powerpc/perf: Fix IMC initialization crash
Panic observed with latest firmware, and upstream kernel:

 NIP init_imc_pmu+0x8c/0xcf0
 LR  init_imc_pmu+0x2f8/0xcf0
 Call Trace:
   init_imc_pmu+0x2c8/0xcf0 (unreliable)
   opal_imc_counters_probe+0x300/0x400
   platform_drv_probe+0x64/0x110
   driver_probe_device+0x3d8/0x580
   __driver_attach+0x14c/0x1a0
   bus_for_each_dev+0x8c/0xf0
   driver_attach+0x34/0x50
   bus_add_driver+0x298/0x350
   driver_register+0x9c/0x180
   __platform_driver_register+0x5c/0x70
   opal_imc_driver_init+0x2c/0x40
   do_one_initcall+0x64/0x1d0
   kernel_init_freeable+0x280/0x374
   kernel_init+0x24/0x160
   ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x74

While registering nest imc at init, cpu-hotplug callback
nest_pmu_cpumask_init() makes an OPAL call to stop the engine. And if
the OPAL call fails, imc_common_cpuhp_mem_free() is invoked to cleanup
memory and cpuhotplug setup.

But when cleaning up the attribute group, we are dereferencing the
attribute element array without checking whether the backing element
is not NULL. This causes the kernel panic.

Add a check for the backing element prior to dereferencing the
attribute element, to handle the failing case gracefully.

Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar <anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Pridhiviraj Paidipeddi <ppaidipe@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[mpe: Trim change log]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-10-13 20:08:40 +11:00
Documentation DeviceTree fixes for 4.14: 2017-09-24 16:04:12 -07:00
arch powerpc/perf: Fix IMC initialization crash 2017-10-13 20:08:40 +11:00
block block: directly insert blk-mq request from blk_insert_cloned_request() 2017-09-11 16:43:57 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - update correct dst SGL entry 2017-09-20 17:42:42 +08:00
drivers cxl: Fix memory page not handled 2017-09-29 14:19:44 +10:00
firmware firmware: Restore support for built-in firmware 2017-09-16 10:58:48 -07:00
fs Various SMB3 fixes for stable and security improvements from the recently completed SMB3/Samba test events 2017-09-22 16:11:48 -10:00
include DeviceTree fixes for 4.14: 2017-09-24 16:04:12 -07:00
init Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 18:54:01 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm: Fix order of parameters when calling copy_compat_shmid_to_user 2017-09-20 23:27:48 -04:00
kernel Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-09-23 05:41:27 -10:00
lib Merge branch 'parisc-4.14-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux 2017-09-23 06:14:06 -10:00
mm Merge branch 'work.read_write' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 19:29:55 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-09-23 05:41:27 -10:00
samples media updates for v4.14-rc1 2017-09-07 12:53:14 -07:00
scripts DeviceTree fixes for 4.14: 2017-09-24 16:04:12 -07:00
security Merge branch 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2017-09-24 11:40:41 -07:00
sound vfs: constify path argument to kernel_read_file_from_path 2017-09-14 20:18:45 -07:00
tools Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-09-24 12:33:58 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt Revert "KVM: Don't accept obviously wrong gsi values via KVM_IRQFD" 2017-09-19 08:37:17 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
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CREDITS selinux/stable-4.14 PR 20170831 2017-09-12 13:21:00 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
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MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-09-23 05:41:27 -10:00
Makefile Linux 4.14-rc2 2017-09-24 16:38:56 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.