x86, MCE: Robustify mcheck_init_device

suryasaimadhu · suryasaimadhu · commit 51cbe7e7c400 · 2014-07-21T18:14:32.000+02:00
BorisO reports that misc_register() fails often on xen. The current code unregisters the CPU hotplug notifier in that case. If then a CPU is offlined and onlined back again, we end up with a second timer running on that CPU, leading to soft lockups and system hangs. So let's leave the hotcpu notifier always registered - even if mce_device_create failed for some cores and never unreg it so that we can deal with the timer handling accordingly. Reported-and-Tested-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1403274493-1371-1-git-send-email-boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c
@@ -2451,6 +2451,12 @@ static __init int mcheck_init_device(void)
 	for_each_online_cpu(i) {
 		err = mce_device_create(i);
 		if (err) {
+			/*
+			 * Register notifier anyway (and do not unreg it) so
+			 * that we don't leave undeleted timers, see notifier
+			 * callback above.
+			 */
+			__register_hotcpu_notifier(&mce_cpu_notifier);
 			cpu_notifier_register_done();
 			goto err_device_create;
 		}
@@ -2471,10 +2477,6 @@ static __init int mcheck_init_device(void)
 err_register:
 	unregister_syscore_ops(&mce_syscore_ops);
 
-	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
-	__unregister_hotcpu_notifier(&mce_cpu_notifier);
-	cpu_notifier_register_done();
-
 err_device_create:
 	/*
 	 * We didn't keep track of which devices were created above, but
