[PATCH 6.18 648/752] PCI/IOV: Fix race between SR-IOV enable/disable and hotplug

Sasha Levin
2026-02-28T17:57:43Z

From: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>

[ Upstream commit a5338e365c4559d7b4d7356116b0eb95b12e08d5 ]

Commit 05703271c3cd ("PCI/IOV: Add PCI rescan-remove locking when
enabling/disabling SR-IOV") tried to fix a race between the VF removal
inside sriov_del_vfs() and concurrent hot unplug by taking the PCI
rescan/remove lock in sriov_del_vfs(). Similarly the PCI rescan/remove lock
was also taken in sriov_add_vfs() to protect addition of VFs.

This approach however causes deadlock on trying to remove PFs with SR-IOV
enabled because PFs disable SR-IOV during removal and this removal happens
under the PCI rescan/remove lock. So the original fix had to be reverted.

Instead of taking the PCI rescan/remove lock in sriov_add_vfs() and
sriov_del_vfs(), fix the race that occurs with SR-IOV enable and disable vs
hotplug higher up in the callchain by taking the lock in
sriov_numvfs_store() before calling into the driver's sriov_configure()
callback.

Fixes: 05703271c3cd ("PCI/IOV: Add PCI rescan-remove locking when enabling/disabling SR-IOV")
Reported-by: Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gerd Bayer <gbayer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251216-revert_sriov_lock-v3-2-dac4925a7621@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/pci/iov.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/pci/iov.c b/drivers/pci/iov.c
index ac4375954c947..c6dc1b44bf602 100644
--- a/drivers/pci/iov.c
+++ b/drivers/pci/iov.c
@@ -495,7 +495,9 @@ static ssize_t sriov_numvfs_store(struct device *dev,

if (num_vfs == 0) {
/* disable VFs */
+ pci_lock_rescan_remove();
ret = pdev->driver->sriov_configure(pdev, 0);
+ pci_unlock_rescan_remove();
goto exit;
}

@@ -507,7 +509,9 @@ static ssize_t sriov_numvfs_store(struct device *dev,
goto exit;
}

+ pci_lock_rescan_remove();
ret = pdev->driver->sriov_configure(pdev, num_vfs);
+ pci_unlock_rescan_remove();
if (ret < 0)
goto exit;

--
2.51.0