ACPI / scan: Drop support for force_remove

/sys/firmware/acpi/hotplug/force_remove was presumably added to support
auto offlining in the past. This is, however, inherently dangerous for
some hotplugable resources like memory. The memory offlining fails when
the memory is still in use and cannot be dropped or migrated. If we
ignore the failure we are basically allowing for subtle memory
corruption or a crash.

We have actually noticed the later while hitting BUG() during the memory
hotremove (remove_memory):
	ret = walk_memory_range(PFN_DOWN(start), PFN_UP(start + size - 1), NULL,
			check_memblock_offlined_cb);
	if (ret)
		BUG();

it took us quite non-trivial time realize that the customer had
force_remove enabled. Even if the BUG was removed here and we could
propagate the error up the call chain it wouldn't help at all because
then we would hit a crash or a memory corruption later and harder to
debug. So force_remove is unfixable for the memory hotremove. We haven't
checked other hotplugable resources to be prone to a similar problems.

Remove the force_remove functionality because it is not fixable currently.
Keep the sysfs file and report an error if somebody tries to enable it.
Encourage users to report about the missing functionality and work with
them with an alternative solution.

Reviewed-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/scan.c b/drivers/acpi/scan.c
index 1926918..e2080b6 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/scan.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/scan.c
@@ -30,12 +30,6 @@ extern struct acpi_device *acpi_root;
 
 #define INVALID_ACPI_HANDLE	((acpi_handle)empty_zero_page)
 
-/*
- * If set, devices will be hot-removed even if they cannot be put offline
- * gracefully (from the kernel's standpoint).
- */
-bool acpi_force_hot_remove;
-
 static const char *dummy_hid = "device";
 
 static LIST_HEAD(acpi_dep_list);
@@ -170,9 +164,6 @@ static acpi_status acpi_bus_offline(acpi_handle handle, u32 lvl, void *data,
 			pn->put_online = false;
 		}
 		ret = device_offline(pn->dev);
-		if (acpi_force_hot_remove)
-			continue;
-
 		if (ret >= 0) {
 			pn->put_online = !ret;
 		} else {
@@ -241,11 +232,11 @@ static int acpi_scan_try_to_offline(struct acpi_device *device)
 		acpi_walk_namespace(ACPI_TYPE_ANY, handle, ACPI_UINT32_MAX,
 				    NULL, acpi_bus_offline, (void *)true,
 				    (void **)&errdev);
-		if (!errdev || acpi_force_hot_remove)
+		if (!errdev)
 			acpi_bus_offline(handle, 0, (void *)true,
 					 (void **)&errdev);
 
-		if (errdev && !acpi_force_hot_remove) {
+		if (errdev) {
 			dev_warn(errdev, "Offline failed.\n");
 			acpi_bus_online(handle, 0, NULL, NULL);
 			acpi_walk_namespace(ACPI_TYPE_ANY, handle,
@@ -263,8 +254,7 @@ static int acpi_scan_hot_remove(struct acpi_device *device)
 	unsigned long long sta;
 	acpi_status status;
 
-	if (device->handler && device->handler->hotplug.demand_offline
-	    && !acpi_force_hot_remove) {
+	if (device->handler && device->handler->hotplug.demand_offline) {
 		if (!acpi_scan_is_offline(device, true))
 			return -EBUSY;
 	} else {