From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Peter Rajnoha <prajnoha@redhat.com>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc/vio: drop bus_type from parent device
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 12:35:02 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200730153502.GD6828@mussarela> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200730053716.GA3862178@kroah.com>
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 07:37:16AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 11:28:38AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > [ Added Peter & Greg to Cc ]
> >
> > Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com> writes:
> > > Commit df44b479654f62b478c18ee4d8bc4e9f897a9844 ("kobject: return error
> > > code if writing /sys/.../uevent fails") started returning failure when
> > > writing to /sys/devices/vio/uevent.
> > >
> > > This causes an early udevadm trigger to fail. On some installer versions of
> > > Ubuntu, this will cause init to exit, thus panicing the system very early
> > > during boot.
> > >
> > > Removing the bus_type from the parent device will remove some of the extra
> > > empty files from /sys/devices/vio/, but will keep the rest of the layout
> > > for vio devices, keeping them under /sys/devices/vio/.
> >
> > What exactly does it change?
> >
> > I'm finding it hard to evaluate if this change is going to cause a
> > regression somehow.
> >
> > I'm also not clear on why removing the bus type is correct, apart from
> > whether it fixes the bug you're seeing.
> >
> > > It has been tested that uevents for vio devices don't change after this
> > > fix, they still contain MODALIAS.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
> > > Fixes: df44b479654f ("kobject: return error code if writing /sys/.../uevent fails")
> >
> > AFAICS there haven't been any other fixes for that commit. Do we know
> > why it is only vio that was affected? (possibly because it's a fake bus
> > to begin with?)
>
> So there was an error previously, the core was ignoring it, and now it
> isn't and to fix that you want to remove describing what bus a device is
> on?
>
> Huh???
>
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c
> > > index 37f1f25ba804..a94dab3972a0 100644
> > > --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c
> > > +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c
> > > @@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ static struct vio_dev vio_bus_device = { /* fake "parent" device */
> > > .name = "vio",
> > > .type = "",
> > > .dev.init_name = "vio",
> > > - .dev.bus = &vio_bus_type,
> > > };
>
> Wait, a static 'struct device'? You all are playing with fire there.
> That's a reference counted object, and should never be declared like
> that at all.
>
> I see you register it, but never unregister it, why? Why is it even
> needed?
>
> And if you remove the bus type of it, it will show up in a different
> part of sysfs, so I think this patch will show a user-visable change,
> right?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
As the comment says, it's a "fake parent device". There is a user-visible
change, which is removing some attributes from the object, but it's still
showing up on the same path.
Returning an error code like df44b479654f does is also a user visible change
and it breaks installer images that panic early on boot.
I could investigate an alternative here, which would be not fail when writing
to uevent for this specific fake device.
Cascardo.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-30 15:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-06 15:57 [PATCH v2] powerpc/vio: drop bus_type from parent device Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2020-07-30 1:28 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-07-30 5:37 ` Greg KH
2020-07-30 15:35 ` Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo [this message]
2020-07-31 0:53 ` Michael Ellerman
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