On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 06:38:29PM +0300, Rakesh Pandit wrote: > Just got to use the using the test box again and you are right that > nvme_remove_dead_ctrl_work is getting called just before the NULL > pointer dereference. > > Here call trace to nvme_timeout which results in eventually call to > nvme_reset when it wants to reset the controller (which races with > ->reset_notify from PCI layer): Does the patch below fix the issue for you? diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.c b/drivers/pci/pci.c index b01bd5bba8e6..f8c15e2719c4 100644 --- a/drivers/pci/pci.c +++ b/drivers/pci/pci.c @@ -4275,11 +4275,13 @@ int pci_reset_function(struct pci_dev *dev) if (rc) return rc; + device_lock(&dev->dev); pci_dev_save_and_disable(dev); - rc = pci_dev_reset(dev, 0); + rc = __pci_dev_reset(dev, 0); pci_dev_restore(dev); + device_unlock(&dev->dev); return rc; }