On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 03:36:42PM +0200, Eric Farman wrote:
> The pointer to mdev_bus_compat_class is statically defined at the top
> of mdev_core, and was originally (commit 7b96953bc640 ("vfio: Mediated
> device Core driver") serialized by the parent_list_lock. The blamed
> commit removed this mutex, leaving the pointer initialization
> unserialized. As a result, the creation of multiple MDEVs in parallel
> (such as during boot) can encounter errors during the creation of the
> sysfs entries, such as:
>
> [ 8.337509] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/class/mdev_bus'
> [ 8.337514] vfio_ccw 0.0.01d8: MDEV: Registered
> [ 8.337516] CPU: 13 PID: 946 Comm: driverctl Not tainted 6.4.0-rc7 #20
> [ 8.337522] Hardware name: IBM 3906 M05 780 (LPAR)
> [ 8.337525] Call Trace:
> [ 8.337528] [<0000000162b0145a>] dump_stack_lvl+0x62/0x80
> [ 8.337540] [<00000001622aeb30>] sysfs_warn_dup+0x78/0x88
> [ 8.337549] [<00000001622aeca6>] sysfs_create_dir_ns+0xe6/0xf8
> [ 8.337552] [<0000000162b04504>] kobject_add_internal+0xf4/0x340
> [ 8.337557] [<0000000162b04d48>] kobject_add+0x78/0xd0
> [ 8.337561] [<0000000162b04e0a>] kobject_create_and_add+0x6a/0xb8
> [ 8.337565] [<00000001627a110e>] class_compat_register+0x5e/0x90
> [ 8.337572] [<000003ff7fd815da>] mdev_register_parent+0x102/0x130 [mdev]
> [ 8.337581] [<000003ff7fdc7f2c>] vfio_ccw_sch_probe+0xe4/0x178 [vfio_ccw]
> [ 8.337588] [<0000000162a7833c>] css_probe+0x44/0x80
> [ 8.337599] [<000000016279f4da>] really_probe+0xd2/0x460
> [ 8.337603] [<000000016279fa08>] driver_probe_device+0x40/0xf0
> [ 8.337606] [<000000016279fb78>] __device_attach_driver+0xc0/0x140
> [ 8.337610] [<000000016279cbe0>] bus_for_each_drv+0x90/0xd8
> [ 8.337618] [<00000001627a00b0>] __device_attach+0x110/0x190
> [ 8.337621] [<000000016279c7c8>] bus_rescan_devices_helper+0x60/0xb0
> [ 8.337626] [<000000016279cd48>] drivers_probe_store+0x48/0x80
> [ 8.337632] [<00000001622ac9b0>] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x138/0x1f0
> [ 8.337635] [<00000001621e5e14>] vfs_write+0x1ac/0x2f8
> [ 8.337645] [<00000001621e61d8>] ksys_write+0x70/0x100
> [ 8.337650] [<0000000162b2bdc4>] __do_syscall+0x1d4/0x200
> [ 8.337656] [<0000000162b3c828>] system_call+0x70/0x98
> [ 8.337664] kobject: kobject_add_internal failed for mdev_bus with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.
> [ 8.337668] kobject: kobject_create_and_add: kobject_add error: -17
> [ 8.337674] vfio_ccw: probe of 0.0.01d9 failed with error -12
> [ 8.342941] vfio_ccw_mdev aeb9ca91-10c6-42bc-a168-320023570aea: Adding to iommu group 2
>
> Move the initialization of the mdev_bus_compat_class pointer to the
> init path, to match the cleanup in module exit. This way the code
> in mdev_register_parent() can simply link the new parent to it,
> rather than determining whether initialization is required first.
>
> Fixes: 89345d5177aa ("vfio/mdev: embedd struct mdev_parent in the parent data structure")
> Reported-by: Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Farman <farman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Jason
