> From: Michael Kelley <mikelley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 2:44 PM > To: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; lorenzo.pieralisi@xxxxxxx; > bhelgaas@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-pci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; KY Srinivasan > > ... > > diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pci-hyperv.c > > @@ -1776,6 +1776,10 @@ static void pci_devices_present_work(struct > work_struct *work) > > hpdev = list_first_entry(&removed, struct hv_pci_dev, > > list_entry); > > list_del(&hpdev->list_entry); > > + > > + if (hpdev->pci_slot) > > + pci_destroy_slot(hpdev->pci_slot); > > The code is inconsistent in whether hpdev->pci_slot is set to NULL after calling > pci_destory_slot(). Here, in pci_devices_present_work(), it's unnecessary to set it to NULL, Because: 1) the "hpdev" is removed from hbus->children and it can not be seen elsewhere; 2) the "hpdev" struct is freed in the below put_pcichild(): while (!list_empty(&removed)) { hpdev = list_first_entry(&removed, struct hv_pci_dev, list_entry); list_del(&hpdev->list_entry); if (hpdev->pci_slot) pci_destroy_slot(hpdev->pci_slot); put_pcichild(hpdev); } > Patch 2 in this series does set it to NULL, but this code does not. In Patch2, i.e. in the code path hv_pci_remove() -> hv_pci_remove_slots(), we must set hpdev->pci_slot to NULL, otherwise, later, due to hv_pci_remove() -> hv_pci_bus_exit() -> hv_pci_devices_present() with the zero "relations", we'll double-free the "hpdev" struct in pci_devices_present_work() -- see the above. > And the code in hv_eject_device_work() does not set it to NULL. It's unnecessary to set hpdev->pci_slot to NULL in hv_eject_device_work(), Because in hv_eject_device_work(): 1) the "hpdev" is removed from hbus->children and it can not be seen elsewhere; 2) the "hpdev" struct is freed at the end of hv_eject_device_work() with my first patch: [PATCH 1/3] PCI: hv: Fix a memory leak in hv_eject_device_work(). > It looks like all the places that test the value of hpdev->pci_slot or call > pci_destroy_slot() are serialized, so it looks like it really doesn't matter. But > when > the code is inconsistent about setting to NULL, it always makes me wonder if > there > is a reason. > > Michael Thanks, -- Dexuan