Re: [PATCH v2] PCI: lock each enable/disable num_vfs operation in sysfs

On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 01:59:08PM -0800, Emil Tantilov wrote:

Enabling/disabling SRIOV via sysfs by echo-ing multiple values
simultaneously:

echo 63 > /sys/class/net/ethX/device/sriov_numvfs&
echo 63 > /sys/class/net/ethX/device/sriov_numvfs

sleep 5

echo 0 > /sys/class/net/ethX/device/sriov_numvfs&
echo 0 > /sys/class/net/ethX/device/sriov_numvfs

Results in the following bug:

kernel BUG at drivers/pci/iov.c:495!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU: 1 PID: 8050 Comm: bash Tainted: G   W   4.9.0-rc7-net-next #2092
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff813b1647>]
  [<ffffffff813b1647>] pci_iov_release+0x57/0x60

Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81391726>] pci_release_dev+0x26/0x70
[<ffffffff8155be6e>] device_release+0x3e/0xb0
[<ffffffff81365ee7>] kobject_cleanup+0x67/0x180
[<ffffffff81365d9d>] kobject_put+0x2d/0x60
[<ffffffff8155bc27>] put_device+0x17/0x20
[<ffffffff8139c08a>] pci_dev_put+0x1a/0x20
[<ffffffff8139cb6b>] pci_get_dev_by_id+0x5b/0x90
[<ffffffff8139cca5>] pci_get_subsys+0x35/0x40
[<ffffffff8139ccc8>] pci_get_device+0x18/0x20
[<ffffffff8139ccfb>] pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot+0x2b/0x60
[<ffffffff813b09e7>] pci_iov_remove_virtfn+0x57/0x180
[<ffffffff813b0b95>] pci_disable_sriov+0x65/0x140
[<ffffffffa00a1af7>] ixgbe_disable_sriov+0xc7/0x1d0 [ixgbe]
[<ffffffffa00a1e9d>] ixgbe_pci_sriov_configure+0x3d/0x170 [ixgbe]
[<ffffffff8139d28c>] sriov_numvfs_store+0xdc/0x130
...
RIP  [<ffffffff813b1647>] pci_iov_release+0x57/0x60

Use the existing mutex lock to protect each enable/disable operation.

-v2: move the existing lock from protecting the config of the IOV bus
to protecting the writes to sriov_numvfs in sysfs without maintaining
a "locked" version of pci_iov_add/remove_virtfn().
As suggested by Gavin Shan [off-list ref]

CC: Alexander Duyck <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Emil Tantilov <redacted>
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Reviewed-by: Gavin Shan <redacted>