[PATCH 3.8 85/91] [SCSI] enclosure: fix WARN_ON in dual path device removing

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Thu Jan 2 17:05:00 UTC 2014


3.8.13.15 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: James Bottomley <JBottomley at Parallels.com>

commit a1470c7bf3a4676e62e4c0fb204e339399eb5c59 upstream.

Bug report from: wenxiong at linux.vnet.ibm.com

The issue is happened in dual controller configuration. We got the
sysfs warnings when rmmod the ipr module.

enclosure_unregister() in drivers/msic/enclosure.c, call device_unregister()
for each componment deivce, device_unregister() ->device_del()->kobject_del()
->sysfs_remove_dir(). In sysfs_remove_dir(), set kobj->sd = NULL.

For each componment device,
enclosure_component_release()->enclosure_remove_links()->sysfs_remove_link()
in which checking kobj->sd again, it has been set as NULL when doing
device_unregister. So we saw all these sysfs WARNING.

Tested-by: wenxiong at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley at Parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/misc/enclosure.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
index 00e5fcac8..cbee842 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
@@ -198,6 +198,13 @@ static void enclosure_remove_links(struct enclosure_component *cdev)
 {
 	char name[ENCLOSURE_NAME_SIZE];
 
+	/*
+	 * In odd circumstances, like multipath devices, something else may
+	 * already have removed the links, so check for this condition first.
+	 */
+	if (!cdev->dev->kobj.sd)
+		return;
+
 	enclosure_link_name(cdev, name);
 	sysfs_remove_link(&cdev->dev->kobj, name);
 	sysfs_remove_link(&cdev->cdev.kobj, "device");
-- 
1.8.3.2





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