A SURPRISE removal of a hotplug PCIe device, caused by a Link Down event will execute an orderly removal of the driver, which normally includes releasing the IRQs with pci_free_irq(_vectors): * SURPRISE removal event causes Link Down * pciehp_disable_slot() * pci_device_remove() * driver->remove() * pci_free_irq(_vectors)() * irq_chip->irq_mask() * pci_msi_mask_irq() Eventually, msi_set_mask_bit() will attempt to do MMIO over the dead link, usually resulting in an Unsupported Request error. This can confuse the firmware on FFS machines, and lead to a system crash. Since the channel will have been marked "pci_channel_io_perm_failure" by the hotplug thread, we know we should avoid sending blind IO to a dead link. When the device is disconnected, bail out of MSI teardown. If device removal and Link Down are independent events, there exists a race condition when the Link Down event occurs right after the pci_dev_is_disconnected() check. This is outside the scope of this patch. Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gagniuc <mr.nuke.me@xxxxxxxxx> --- Changes since v2: * Updated commit message drivers/pci/msi.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/pci/msi.c b/drivers/pci/msi.c index 4c0b47867258..6b6541ab264f 100644 --- a/drivers/pci/msi.c +++ b/drivers/pci/msi.c @@ -227,6 +227,9 @@ static void msi_set_mask_bit(struct irq_data *data, u32 flag) { struct msi_desc *desc = irq_data_get_msi_desc(data); + if (pci_dev_is_disconnected(msi_desc_to_pci_dev(desc))) + return; + if (desc->msi_attrib.is_msix) { msix_mask_irq(desc, flag); readl(desc->mask_base); /* Flush write to device */ -- 2.19.2