From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
"linux-pci@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "PCI: Remove from bus_list and release resources in pci_release_dev()"
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 20:48:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140201184822.GO18029@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14676899.LOmsodapl3@vostro.rjw.lan>
On Sat, Feb 01, 2014 at 03:38:29PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> Subject: Revert "PCI: Remove from bus_list and release resources in pci_release_dev()"
>
> Revert commit ef83b0781a73 "PCI: Remove from bus_list and release
> resources in pci_release_dev()" that made some nasty race conditions
> become possible. For example, if a Thunderbolt link is unplugged
> and then replugged immediately, the pci_release_dev() resulting from
> the hot-remove code path may be racing with the hot-add code path
> which after that commit causes various kinds of breakage to happen
> (up to and including a hard crash of the whole system).
>
> Moreover, the problem that commit ef83b0781a73 attempted to address
> cannot happen any more after commit 8a4c5c329de7 "PCI: Check parent
> kobject in pci_destroy_dev()", because pci_destroy_dev() will now
> return immediately if it has already been executed for the given
> device.
>
> Note, however, that the invocation of msi_remove_pci_irq_vectors()
> removed by commit ef83b0781a73 from pci_free_resources() along with
> the other changes made by it is not added back because of subsequent
> code changes depending on that modification.
>
> Fixes: ef83b0781a73 (PCI: Remove from bus_list and release resources in pci_release_dev())
> Reported-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Thanks, that fixes the problem I'm seeing.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-01 18:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2014-01-31 23:34 ` [PATCH] Revert "PCI: Remove from bus_list and release resources in pci_release_dev()" Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-02-01 1:56 ` Yinghai Lu
2014-02-01 14:38 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-02-01 18:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-02-01 18:48 ` Mika Westerberg [this message]
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