ACK/Cmnt: [SRU bionic/master-next 1/1 V2] UBUNTU: SAUCE: base/dd: limit release function changes to vfio driver only

[Stefan Bader]

On 06.12.18 13:32, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> It seems that we can trigger the new race detection after remove()
> with some drivers which clear the driver as they unreference
> the module.  This leads us to fail to clear down those devices which
> triggers suspend/resume issues.
> 
> Limit the core changes to only apply to the vfio driver while we
> work with upstream on a more generic fix.
> 
> Fixes: 876dcb5f4576 ("UBUNTU: SAUCE: vfio -- release device lock before userspace requests")
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1803942
> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
> ---

I guess this is better as the variable is now located in the base driver and
thus exists regardless of the vfio driver being loaded. Not sure whether the
pci_unregister_driver call in vfio would still want the pointer set. But if that
sounds ok to you I am good with that.

-Stefan

>  drivers/base/dd.c           | 10 +++++++++-
>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c |  6 ++++++
>  2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
> index 37c01054521b..045d4e4485b8 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/dd.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
> @@ -820,6 +820,9 @@ int driver_attach(struct device_driver *drv)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(driver_attach);
>  
> +void *vfio_pci_driver_ptr = (void *)0xdeadfeed;
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfio_pci_driver_ptr);
> +
>  /*
>   * __device_release_driver() must be called with @dev lock held.
>   * When called for a USB interface, @dev->parent lock must be held as well.
> @@ -872,8 +875,13 @@ static void __device_release_driver(struct device *dev, struct device *parent)
>  		 * A concurrent invocation of the same function might
>  		 * have released the driver successfully while this one
>  		 * was waiting, so check for that.
> +		 * LP: #1792099
> +		 *
> +		 * Limit this to the vfio_pci_driver as some drivers NULL
> +		 * out this pointer in their remove() function.
> +		 * LP: #1803942
>  		 */
> -		if (dev->driver != drv)
> +		if (drv == vfio_pci_driver_ptr && dev->driver != drv)
>  			return;
>  
>  		device_links_driver_cleanup(dev);
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
> index f041b1a6cf66..6e70281715c4 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
> @@ -1310,6 +1310,7 @@ static struct pci_driver vfio_pci_driver = {
>  	.remove		= vfio_pci_remove,
>  	.err_handler	= &vfio_err_handlers,
>  };
> +extern void *vfio_pci_driver_ptr;
>  
>  struct vfio_devices {
>  	struct vfio_device **devices;
> @@ -1404,6 +1405,8 @@ static void vfio_pci_try_bus_reset(struct vfio_pci_device *vdev)
>  
>  static void __exit vfio_pci_cleanup(void)
>  {
> +	vfio_pci_driver_ptr = (void *)0xdeadfeed;
> +
>  	pci_unregister_driver(&vfio_pci_driver);
>  	vfio_pci_uninit_perm_bits();
>  }
> @@ -1465,6 +1468,9 @@ static int __init vfio_pci_init(void)
>  
>  	vfio_pci_fill_ids();
>  
> +	/* Advertise my address. */
> +	vfio_pci_driver_ptr = &vfio_pci_driver;
> +
>  	return 0;
>  
>  out_driver:
> 


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