ACPI / APEI: Add missing synchronize_rcu() on NOTIFY_SCI removal
authorJames Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:30:39 +0000 (14:30 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Tue, 18 Jul 2017 17:38:38 +0000 (18:38 +0100)
commiteaff01dc896bef8a6caba0b55019a98b80a23397
tree63a526351178cab53ad9765ef0e1f766fe3f3197
parentb833c96e189ab5349b81e8364b7e2b44f6fe3e3e
ACPI / APEI: Add missing synchronize_rcu() on NOTIFY_SCI removal

commit 7d64f82cceb21e6d95db312d284f5f195e120154 upstream.

When removing a GHES device notified by SCI, list_del_rcu() is used,
ghes_remove() should call synchronize_rcu() before it goes on to call
kfree(ghes), otherwise concurrent RCU readers may still hold this list
entry after it has been freed.

Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Fixes: 81e88fdc432a (ACPI, APEI, Generic Hardware Error Source POLL/IRQ/NMI notification type support)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
drivers/acpi/apei/ghes.c