Re: [PATCH 1/2] driver core / ACPI: Avoid device hot remove locking issues

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 03:48:11PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> 
> device_hotplug_lock is held around the acpi_bus_trim() call in
> acpi_scan_hot_remove() which generally removes devices (it removes
> ACPI device objects at least, but it may also remove "physical"
> device objects through .detach() callbacks of ACPI scan handlers).
> Thus, potentially, device sysfs attributes are removed under that
> lock and to remove those attributes it is necessary to hold the
> s_active references of their directory entries for writing.
> 
> On the other hand, the execution of a .show() or .store() callback
> from a sysfs attribute is carried out with that attribute's s_active
> reference held for reading.  Consequently, if any device sysfs
> attribute that may be removed from within acpi_scan_hot_remove()
> through acpi_bus_trim() has a .store() or .show() callback which
> acquires device_hotplug_lock, the execution of that callback may
> deadlock with the removal of the attribute.  [Unfortunately, the
> "online" device attribute of CPUs and memory blocks is one of them.]
> 
> To avoid such deadlocks, make all of the sysfs attribute callbacks
> that need to lock device hotplug, for example store_online(), use
> a special function, lock_device_hotplug_sysfs(), to lock device
> hotplug and return the result of that function immediately if it is
> not zero.  This will cause the s_active reference of the directory
> entry in question to be released and the syscall to be restarted
> if device_hotplug_lock cannot be acquired.
> 
> [show_online() actually doesn't need to lock device hotplug, but
> it is useful to serialize it with respect to device_offline() and
> device_online() for the same device (in case user space attempts to
> run them concurrently) which can be done with the help of
> device_lock().]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> Reported-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Reported-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>