On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 06:04:20PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 06:02:17PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > 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? > > Actually, it probably should be this one, but for you the effects > are probably the same: > > diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.c b/drivers/pci/pci.c > index b01bd5bba8e6..b61ad77dc322 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; > > + pci_dev_lock(dev); > pci_dev_save_and_disable(dev); > > - rc = pci_dev_reset(dev, 0); > + rc = __pci_dev_reset(dev, 0); > > pci_dev_restore(dev); > + pci_dev_unlock(dev); > > return rc; > } Thanks, this patch fixes the reported issue for me.