Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.5 094/542] s390/pci: Fix possible deadlock in recover_store()

[Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 10:31:56AM +0100, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
>On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 10:41:26AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 576c75e36c689bec6a940e807bae27291ab0c0de ]
>>
>> With zpci_disable() working, lockdep detected a potential deadlock
>> (lockdep output at the end).
>>
>> The deadlock is between recovering a PCI function via the
>>
>> /sys/bus/pci/devices/<dev>/recover
>>
>> attribute vs powering it off via
>>
>> /sys/bus/pci/slots/<slot>/power.
>>
>> The fix is analogous to the changes in commit 0ee223b2e1f6 ("scsi: core:
>> Avoid that SCSI device removal through sysfs triggers a deadlock")
>> that fixed a potential deadlock on removing a SCSI device via sysfs.
>[ ... snip ... ]
>
>While technically useful on its own this commit really should go together with
>the following upstream commit:
>
>17cdec960cf776b20b1fb08c622221babe591d51
>("s390/pci: Recover handle in clp_set_pci_fn()")
>
>While the problem fixed here is independent,  writing to the power/recover
>attributes will often fail due to an inconsistent function handle without the
>second commit.
>In particular without it a PCI function in the error state can not be
>recovered or powered off.
>
>I would recommend adding the second commit to the backports as well.

I took that commit as well, thank you.

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Thanks,
Sasha