From: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chleroy@kernel.org,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>,
"Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/smp: Handle missing ibm,thread-groups in parse_thread_groups()
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 19:13:24 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <39282c731de90f47678952e471236ef22e9d4b15.1794317777.git.ritesh.list@gmail.com> (raw)
Power systems can have ibm,thread-groups properly absent like in one of
the PowerNV Power9 boxes where there was a warning splat reported on
7.4-rc2:
WARNING: mm/slub.c:5459 at ___kmalloc_large_node+0x174/0x1a0, CPU#124: swapper/124/1
...
Call Trace:
__kmalloc_noprof+0x490/0x690
_kzalloc_noprof.constprop.0+0x1c/0x7c
init_thread_group_cache_map+0xd0/0x2d4
smp_prepare_cpus+0x2bc/0x484
kernel_init_freeable+0x168/0x3c4
kernel_init+0x34/0x1ac
This happens because today we don't check for whether the properly is
present or not and directly pass the return value of
of_property_count_u32_elems(), to the allocator.
This went unnoticed because earlier kcalloc() caught the overflow due to
check_mul_overflow() check and returned NULL.
But since commit 0af298e62e5c ("treewide: refresh kmalloc_obj()
conversions") switched this call to kzalloc_objs(), size_mul() saturates
the size to SIZE_MAX instead and we now get a warning at boot.
Bail out early if the property is missing or empty. Follow the return
value as documented in kernel doc of parse_thread_groups() function.
Fixes: 790a1662d3a2 ("powerpc/smp: Parse ibm,thread-groups with multiple properties")
Reported-by: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
index 7a25eaa59e62..9a0f63e43821 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c
@@ -824,6 +824,10 @@ static int parse_thread_groups(struct device_node *dn,
int i = 0;
count = of_property_count_u32_elems(dn, "ibm,thread-groups");
+ if (count < 0)
+ return count;
+ if (!count)
+ return -ENODATA;
thread_group_array = kzalloc_objs(u32, count);
if (!thread_group_array)
return -ENOMEM;
--
2.39.5
next reply other threads:[~2026-11-10 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-10 13:43 Ritesh Harjani (IBM) [this message]
2026-11-10 14:37 ` Shrikanth Hegde
2026-11-10 15:23 ` Ritesh Harjani
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