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From: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
To: Shivaprasad G Bhat <sbhat@linux.ibm.com>,
	maddy@linux.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au, npiggin@gmail.com, chleroy@kernel.org,
	sbhat@linux.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/eeh: Fix recursive locking on devices without EEH sensitive driver
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:36:55 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <h5m9wmeo.ritesh.list@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <177725885065.13410.12259326756082237538.stgit@linux.ibm.com>

Shivaprasad G Bhat <sbhat@linux.ibm.com> writes:

hey, sorry looks like this fall through the cracks.

> The commit 1010b4c012b0 ("powerpc/eeh: Make EEH driver device hotplug
> safe") refactored the EEH code such that the pci_rescan_remove_lock is
> held at the beginning of eeh_handle_normal_event() and the
> eeh_reset_device() is called with that lock being held. Looks like the
> commit missed to remove the existing lock/unlock inside eeh_rmv_device()
> which is no longer necessary. This is causing the eehd to hang on the
> lock which it actually holds when that code path is taken.
>
> [<0>] 0xc00000011c78f870
> [<0>] __switch_to+0xfc/0x1a0
> [<0>] pci_lock_rescan_remove+0x30/0x44
> [<0>] eeh_rmv_device+0x290/0x2e0
> [<0>] eeh_pe_dev_traverse+0x80/0x130
> [<0>] eeh_reset_device+0xcc/0x23c
> [<0>] eeh_handle_normal_event+0x830/0xa80
> [<0>] eeh_event_handler+0xf8/0x190
> [<0>] kthread+0x194/0x1b0
> [<0>] start_kernel_thread+0x14/0x18
>

yup. I see eeh_handle_normal_event(), already holds this lock,
pci_lock_rescan_remove().

And eeh_rmv_device() only ever gets called from

eeh_handle_normal_event()
  eeh_reset_device()
    eeh_pe_dev_traverse(pe, eeh_rmv_device,...)

OR

eeh_handle_normal_event()),
    eeh_pe_dev_traverse(pe, eeh_rmv_device,...)

In both the paths, eeh_handle_normal_event() holds this lock. Although I
am not an expert in eeh area - but looking at the relevant code paths,
the race looks real and this patch fixes that. So feel free to add: 

Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>


I wonder whether clang context analyzer [1] could catch this. This is a
good candidate to try that out.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251219154418.3592607-1-elver@google.com/


> The issue is seen for cases where the errors are detected on the PHB
> directly AND|OR for devices where the driver error_detected() returns
> PCI_ERS_RESULT_NEED_RESET, and driver being not EEH sensitive(i.e no
> error handlers like slot_reset(), resume() etc defined).
>

I am just wondering how did we catch this issue and whether we have some
ways to test eeh scenarios. Although the patch looks good to me.


> Fixes: 1010b4c012b0 ("powerpc/eeh: Make EEH driver device hotplug safe")

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org 

Let's add the above tag so that this also goes to stable trees.  Since
it's been sometime since this was last posted - maybe we should rebase
and resend this with the above tag.

-ritesh

> Signed-off-by: Shivaprasad G Bhat <sbhat@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c |    2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c
> index 028f69158532..d64cce17a4e0 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/eeh_driver.c
> @@ -533,9 +533,7 @@ static void eeh_rmv_device(struct eeh_dev *edev, void *userdata)
>  		if (rmv_data)
>  			list_add(&edev->rmv_entry, &rmv_data->removed_vf_list);
>  	} else {
> -		pci_lock_rescan_remove();
>  		pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device(dev);
> -		pci_unlock_rescan_remove();
>  	}
>  }
>  

      reply	other threads:[~2026-07-08 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-27  3:00 [PATCH] powerpc/eeh: Fix recursive locking on devices without EEH sensitive driver Shivaprasad G Bhat
2026-07-08 15:06 ` Ritesh Harjani [this message]

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