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drivers/base/node: handle error properly in register_one_node()
authorDonet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Fri, 22 Aug 2025 08:48:45 +0000 (14:18 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 15 Oct 2025 09:56:34 +0000 (11:56 +0200)
[ Upstream commit 786eb990cfb78aab94eb74fb32a030e14723a620 ]

If register_node() returns an error, it is not handled correctly.
The function will proceed further and try to register CPUs under the
node, which is not correct.

So, in this patch, if register_node() returns an error, we return
immediately from the function.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250822084845.19219-1-donettom@linux.ibm.com
Fixes: 76b67ed9dce6 ("[PATCH] node hotplug: register cpu: remove node struct")
Signed-off-by: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
Cc: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Donet Tom <donettom@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Hiroyouki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Joanthan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: "Ritesh Harjani (IBM)" <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/base/node.c

index a4141b57b1478eef1b66348059874f754f717e9e..cbaa4e2eddcef287bec496c15371c235be0323fd 100644 (file)
@@ -869,6 +869,11 @@ int __register_one_node(int nid)
        node_devices[nid] = node;
 
        error = register_node(node_devices[nid], nid);
+       if (error) {
+               node_devices[nid] = NULL;
+               kfree(node);
+               return error;
+       }
 
        /* link cpu under this node */
        for_each_present_cpu(cpu) {