Revision 44bda4b7d26e9fffed6d7152d98a2e9edaeb2a76 authored by Hari Vyas on 03 July 2018, 09:05:41 UTC, committed by Bjorn Helgaas on 31 July 2018, 16:27:54 UTC
When a PCI device is detected, pdev->is_added is set to 1 and proc and
sysfs entries are created.

When the device is removed, pdev->is_added is checked for one and then
device is detached with clearing of proc and sys entries and at end,
pdev->is_added is set to 0.

is_added and is_busmaster are bit fields in pci_dev structure sharing same
memory location.

A strange issue was observed with multiple removal and rescan of a PCIe
NVMe device using sysfs commands where is_added flag was observed as zero
instead of one while removing device and proc,sys entries are not cleared.
This causes issue in later device addition with warning message
"proc_dir_entry" already registered.

Debugging revealed a race condition between the PCI core setting the
is_added bit in pci_bus_add_device() and the NVMe driver reset work-queue
setting the is_busmaster bit in pci_set_master().  As these fields are not
handled atomically, that clears the is_added bit.

Move the is_added bit to a separate private flag variable and use atomic
functions to set and retrieve the device addition state.  This avoids the
race because is_added no longer shares a memory location with is_busmaster.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200283
Signed-off-by: Hari Vyas <hari.vyas@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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