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From: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
	Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>,
	linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	chenkeping@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Correctly clean up pci root buses in function pci_remove_bus()
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:23:30 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F5EF5F2.2000507@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE9FiQVRMBHN+QbFpVv4j2xPfco2X0bt9OzzcSE-BrrDY4Oqgg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Yinghai,
	Good points! It's safe with current implementation because
all root bus hotplug operations are under protection of 
pci_remove_rescan_mutex.

On 2012-3-13 14:24, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Jiang Liu<liuj97@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> The function pci_create_root_bus() allocates the pci bus structure,
>> registers the bus device and creates the legacy files for a pci root
>> bus, but returns without setting the is_added flag. The is_added flag
>> for a pci root bus will be set by function pci_scan_child_bus().
>
>> If a pci root bus is destroyed before calling pci_scan_child_bus(),
>> the is_added flag will not be set.
>
> how that can be met?
>
> Do we have pci_remove_rescan_mutex around them?
>
> Yinghai
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-13  7:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-11 17:48 [RFC PATCH 0/5] PCI: introduce hotplug safe bus searching interfaces Jiang Liu
2012-03-11 17:48 ` [PATCH 1/5] Fix device reference count leakage in pci_dev_present() Jiang Liu
2012-03-11 17:48 ` [PATCH 2/5] Correctly clean up pci root buses in function pci_remove_bus() Jiang Liu
2012-03-13  6:24   ` Yinghai Lu
2012-03-13  7:23     ` Jiang Liu [this message]
2012-03-11 17:48 ` [PATCH 3/5] Fix an access-after-free issue in function pci_stop_and_remove_bus() Jiang Liu
2012-03-13  3:47   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-03-11 17:48 ` [RFC PATCH 4/5] PCI: Introduce hotplug-safe pci bus searching interfaces Jiang Liu
2012-03-13  3:49   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2012-03-13  8:13     ` Jiang Liu
2012-03-11 17:48 ` [RFC PATCH 5/5] PCI: Replace old pci bus searching function calls with hotplug safe ones Jiang Liu

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