From: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Gavin Shan <gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [1/2] powerpc/pseries: Fix corrupted pdn list
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:42:34 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150828014234.GA32198@gwshan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1440725560.8076.0.camel@ellerman.id.au>
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:32:40AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>On Fri, 2015-08-28 at 11:09 +1000, Gavin Shan wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:55:35AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> >On Thu, 2015-27-08 at 04:12:36 UTC, Gavin Shan wrote:
>> >> Commit cca87d30 ("powerpc/pci: Refactor pci_dn") introduced pdn
>> >> list for SRIOV VFs. It means the pdn is be put into the child list
>> >> of its parent pdn when the pdn is created. When doing PCI hot
>> >> unplugging on pSeries, the PCI device node as well as its pdn are
>> >> released through procfs entry "powerpc/ofdt". Some one else grabs
>> >> the memory chunk of the pdn and update it accordingly. At the same
>> >> time, the pdn is still tracked in the child list of parent pdn. It
>> >> leads to corrupted child list in the parent pdn.
>> >>
>> >> This fixes above issue by removing the pdn from the child list of
>> >> its parent pdn when the device node is detached from the system.
>> >> Note the pdn is free'd when the device node is released if the
>> >> device node is dynamic one. Otherwise, the device node as well
>> >> as the pdn won't be released.
>> >>
>> >> Fixes: cca87d30 ("powerpc/pci: Refactor pci_dn")
>> >
>> >That went into 4.1, so this should presumably go to stable?
>>
>> Yeah, This should be put into 4.1 stable.
>
>OK thanks.
>
>I've added:
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.1
>
Thanks, Michael :-)
>cheers
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-28 1:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-27 4:12 [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/pseries: Fix corrupted pdn list Gavin Shan
2015-08-27 4:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/pseries: Cleanup on pci_dn_reconfig_notifier() Gavin Shan
2015-08-30 21:20 ` [2/2] " Michael Ellerman
2015-08-28 0:55 ` [1/2] powerpc/pseries: Fix corrupted pdn list Michael Ellerman
2015-08-28 1:09 ` Gavin Shan
2015-08-28 1:32 ` Michael Ellerman
2015-08-28 1:42 ` Gavin Shan [this message]
2015-08-30 21:20 ` Michael Ellerman
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