When doing the following test steps, an error was found: step 1: modprobe 9pnet_virtio succeeded # modprobe 9pnet_virtio <-- OK step 2: fault injection in sysfs_create_file() # modprobe -r 9pnet_virtio <-- OK # ... FAULT_INJECTION: forcing a failure. name failslab, interval 1, probability 0, space 0, times 0 CPU: 0 PID: 3790 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G W 6.1.0-rc6-00285-g6a1e40c4b995-dirty #108 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) Call Trace: <TASK> ... should_failslab+0xa/0x20 ... sysfs_create_file_ns+0x130/0x1d0 p9_virtio_probe+0x662/0xb30 [9pnet_virtio] virtio_dev_probe+0x608/0xae0 ... </TASK> 9pnet_virtio: probe of virtio3 failed with error -12 step 3: modprobe 9pnet_virtio failed # modprobe 9pnet_virtio <-- failed 9pnet_virtio: probe of virtio3 failed with error -2 The root cause of the problem is that the virtqueues are not stopped on the error handling path when sysfs_create_file() fails in p9_virtio_probe(), resulting in an error "-ENOENT" returned in the next modprobe call in setup_vq(). virtio_pci_modern_device uses virtqueues to send or receive message, and "queue_enable" records whether the queues are available. In vp_modern_find_vqs(), all queues will be selected and activated, but once queues are enabled there is no way to go back except reset. Fix it by reset virtio device on error handling path. After virtio_find_single_vq() succeeded, all virtqueues should be stopped on error handling path. Fixes: ea52bf8eda98 ("9p/trans_virtio: reset virtio device on remove") Signed-off-by: Li Zetao <lizetao1@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- v1 -> v2: modify the description error of the test case in step 3 and modify the fixes tag information. net/9p/trans_virtio.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/net/9p/trans_virtio.c b/net/9p/trans_virtio.c index e757f0601304..39933187284b 100644 --- a/net/9p/trans_virtio.c +++ b/net/9p/trans_virtio.c @@ -668,6 +668,7 @@ static int p9_virtio_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev) out_free_tag: kfree(tag); out_free_vq: + virtio_reset_device(vdev); vdev->config->del_vqs(vdev); out_free_chan: kfree(chan); -- 2.25.1