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Commit215ee763f8("powerpc: pseries: remove dlpar_attach_node dependency on full path") reworked dlpar_attach_node() to no longer look up the parent node "/cpus", but instead to have the parent node passed by the caller in the function parameter list. As a result dlpar_attach_node() is no longer responsible for freeing the reference to the parent node. However, commit215ee763f8failed to remove the of_node_put(parent) call in dlpar_attach_node(), or to take into account that the reference to the parent in the caller dlpar_cpu_add() needs to be held until after dlpar_attach_node() returns. As a result doing repeated cpu add/remove dlpar operations will eventually result in the following error: OF: ERROR: Bad of_node_put() on /cpus CPU: 0 PID: 10896 Comm: drmgr Not tainted 4.13.0-autotest #1 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x15c/0x1f8 (unreliable) of_node_release+0x1a4/0x1c0 kobject_put+0x1a8/0x310 kobject_del+0xbc/0xf0 __of_detach_node_sysfs+0x144/0x210 of_detach_node+0xf0/0x180 dlpar_detach_node+0xc4/0x120 dlpar_cpu_remove+0x280/0x560 dlpar_cpu_release+0xbc/0x1b0 arch_cpu_release+0x6c/0xb0 cpu_release_store+0xa0/0x100 dev_attr_store+0x68/0xa0 sysfs_kf_write+0xa8/0xf0 kernfs_fop_write+0x2cc/0x400 __vfs_write+0x5c/0x340 vfs_write+0x1a8/0x3d0 SyS_write+0xa8/0x1a0 system_call+0x58/0x6c Fix the issue by removing the of_node_put(parent) call from dlpar_attach_node(), and ensuring that the reference to the parent node is properly held and released by the caller dlpar_cpu_add(). Fixes:215ee763f8("powerpc: pseries: remove dlpar_attach_node dependency on full path") Signed-off-by: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reported-by: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [mpe: Add a comment in the code and frob the change log slightly] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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