On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 04:04:10PM +0900, Kenji Kaneshige wrote: > I encountered the problem that /proc/bus/pci/XX/YY is not removed even > after the corresponding device is hot-removed, if the file is still > being opened. In addtion, accessing this file in this situation causes > kernel panic (see below). > > Becasue the pci_proc_detach_device() doesn't call remove_proc_entry() > if struct proc_dir_entry->count > 1, access to /proc/bus/pci/XX/YY > would refer to struct pci_dev that was already freed. > > Though I don't know why the check for proc_dir_entry->count was added, > I don't think it is needed. Removing this check fixes the problem. > > Steps to reproduce > ------------------ > # cd /sys/bus/pci/slots/2/ > # PROC_BUS_PCI_FILE=/proc/bus/pci/`awk -F: '{print $2"/"$3}' < address`.0 > # sleep 10000 < $PROC_BUS_PCI_FILE & > # echo 0 > power > # while true; do cat $PROC_BUS_PCI_FILE > /dev/null; done Those last 2 lines only work as root, right? > Oops Messages > ------------- > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000042 > IP: [<c05c82d5>] pci_user_read_config_dword+0x65/0xa0 > *pdpt = 000000002185e001 *pde = 0000000476a79067 > Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP > last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:10:00.0/local_cpus > Modules linked in: autofs4 sunrpc cpufreq_ondemand acpi_cpufreq ipv6 dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod e1000e i2c_i801 i2c_core iTCO_wdt igb sg pcspkr dca iTCO_vendor_support ext4 mbcache jbd2 sd_mod crc_t10dif lpfc mptsas scsi_transport_fc mptscsih mptbase scsi_tgt scsi_transport_sas [last unloaded: microcode] > > Pid: 2997, comm: cat Not tainted 2.6.34-kk #32 SB/PRIMEQUEST 1800E > EIP: 0060:[<c05c82d5>] EFLAGS: 00010046 CPU: 19 > EIP is at pci_user_read_config_dword+0x65/0xa0 > EAX: 00000002 EBX: e44f1800 ECX: e144df14 EDX: 155668c7 > ESI: 00000087 EDI: 00000000 EBP: e144df40 ESP: e144df0c > DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 > Process cat (pid: 2997, ti=e144c000 task=e26f2570 task.ti=e144c000) > Stack: > c09ceac0 c0570f72 ffffffff 08c57000 00000000 00001000 e44f1800 c05d2404 > <0> e144df40 00001000 00000000 00001000 08c57000 3093ae50 e420cb40 e358d5c0 > <0> c05d2300 fffffffb c054984f e144df9c 00008000 08c57000 e358d5c0 00008000 > Call Trace: > [<c0570f72>] ? security_capable+0x22/0x30 > [<c05d2404>] ? proc_bus_pci_read+0x104/0x220 > [<c05d2300>] ? proc_bus_pci_read+0x0/0x220 > [<c054984f>] ? proc_reg_read+0x5f/0x90 > [<c05497f0>] ? proc_reg_read+0x0/0x90 > [<c050694d>] ? vfs_read+0x9d/0x190 > [<c04958f4>] ? audit_syscall_entry+0x204/0x230 > [<c0506a81>] ? sys_read+0x41/0x70 > [<c0402f1f>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28 > Code: b4 26 00 00 00 00 b8 20 88 b1 c0 c7 44 24 08 ff ff ff ff e8 3e 52 22 00 f6 83 24 04 00 00 20 75 34 8b 43 08 8d 4c 24 08 8b 53 1c <8b> 70 40 89 4c 24 04 89 f9 c7 04 24 04 00 00 00 ff 16 89 c6 f0 > EIP: [<c05c82d5>] pci_user_read_config_dword+0x65/0xa0 SS:ESP 0068:e144df0c > CR2: 0000000000000042 > > Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > drivers/pci/proc.c | 2 -- > 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) > > Index: linux-2.6.34/drivers/pci/proc.c > =================================================================== > --- linux-2.6.34.orig/drivers/pci/proc.c > +++ linux-2.6.34/drivers/pci/proc.c > @@ -431,8 +431,6 @@ int pci_proc_detach_device(struct pci_de > struct proc_dir_entry *e; > > if ((e = dev->procent)) { > - if (atomic_read(&e->count) > 1) > - return -EBUSY; > remove_proc_entry(e->name, dev->bus->procdir); > dev->procent = NULL; > } This looks good to me, it's been there for forever :) Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html