From: "Krzysztof Wilczyński" <kw@linux.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
Cc: "Slivka, Danijel" <Danijel.Slivka@amd.com>,
"bhelgaas@google.com" <bhelgaas@google.com>,
"linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PCI: Fix accessing freed memory in pci_remove_resource_files
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2021 20:37:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210603183757.GB375714@rocinante.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210525225445.GA108348@rocinante.localdomain>
Hello,
[...]
> Having said that, aside of some dependency Alpha has on the functions we
> are trying to retire, both of them have a larger challenge to overcome,
> and which is related to the following commits:
>
> - 3234ac664a87 ("/dev/mem: Revoke mappings when a driver claims the region")
> - 636b21b50152 ("PCI: Revoke mappings like devmem")
>
> Following these two changes, functions pci_create_attr() (called internally
> from the pci_create_resource_files()) and pci_create_legacy_files() have
> since a dependency on the iomem_get_mapping() function - which in turn also
> creates an implicit dependency on the VFS and fs_initcall.
>
> This dependency on iomem_get_mapping() stops us from retiring the
> late_initcall at the moment as when we convert dynamically added sysfs
> objects (that are primarily added in the pci_create_resource_files() and
> pci_create_legacy_files() functions), these attributes are added before
> the VFS completes its initialisation, and since most of the PCI devices
> are typically enumerated in subsys_initcall this leads to a failure and
> an Oops related to iomem_get_mapping() access.
>
> See relevant conversations:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20210204165831.2703772-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch/
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20210313215747.GA2394467@bjorn-Precision-5520/
>
> After some deliberation on a potential solution, we have settled on
> changing the order when PCI sub-system and relevant device drivers are
> initialised so that PCI will come after the VFS but before ACPI, thus
> allowing for the iomem_get_mapping() to work without issues.
[...]
The conversation related to the iomem_get_mapping() and the dependency
on VFS has moved to the following thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20210527205845.GA1421476@bjorn-Precision-5520/
Krzysztof
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-03 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-07 10:27 [PATCH] PCI: Fix accessing freed memory in pci_remove_resource_files Danijel Slivka
2021-05-07 22:07 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-05-10 15:02 ` Slivka, Danijel
2021-05-10 22:57 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-05-25 22:54 ` Krzysztof Wilczyński
2021-06-03 18:37 ` Krzysztof Wilczyński [this message]
2021-10-26 22:12 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2021-05-10 15:08 ` Slivka, Danijel
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