Hello! I'm adding more people to loop.
Can somebody look at these race conditions and my patch?
On Friday 14 August 2020 10:08:24 Pali Rohár wrote:
> Hello! I would like to remind this issue which I reported month ago.
>
> On Thursday 16 July 2020 13:04:23 Pali Rohár wrote:
> > Hello Bjorn!
> >
> > I see following error message in dmesg which looks like a race condition:
> >
> > sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/platform/soc/d0070000.pcie/pci0000:00/0000:00:00.0/config'
> >
> > I looked at it deeper and found out that in PCI subsystem code is race
> > condition between pci_bus_add_device() and pci_sysfs_init() calls. Both
> > of these functions calls pci_create_sysfs_dev_files() and calling this
> > function more times for same pci device throws above error message.
> >
> > There can be two different race conditions:
> >
> > 1. pci_bus_add_device() called pcibios_bus_add_device() or
> > pci_fixup_device() but have not called pci_create_sysfs_dev_files() yet.
> > Meanwhile pci_sysfs_init() is running and pci_create_sysfs_dev_files()
> > was called for newly registered device. In this case function
> > pci_create_sysfs_dev_files() is called two times, ones from
> > pci_bus_add_device() and once from pci_sysfs_init().
> >
> > 2. pci_sysfs_init() is called. It first sets sysfs_initialized to 1
> > which unblock calling pci_create_sysfs_dev_files(). Then another bus
> > registers new PCI device and calls pci_bus_add_device() which calls
> > pci_create_sysfs_dev_files() and registers sysfs files. Function
> > pci_sysfs_init() continues execution and calls function
> > pci_create_sysfs_dev_files() also for this newly registered device. So
> > pci_create_sysfs_dev_files() is again called two times.
> >
> >
> > I workaround both race conditions I created following hack patch. After
> > applying it I'm not getting that 'sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename'
> > error message anymore.
> >
> > Can you look at it how to fix both race conditions in proper way?
>
> Is this workaround diff enough? Or are you going to prepare something better?
>
> Please let me know if I should send this diff as regular patch.
>
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/pci/bus.c b/drivers/pci/bus.c
> > index 8e40b3e6da77..691be2258c4e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/pci/bus.c
> > +++ b/drivers/pci/bus.c
> > @@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ void pci_bus_add_device(struct pci_dev *dev)
> > */
> > pcibios_bus_add_device(dev);
> > pci_fixup_device(pci_fixup_final, dev);
> > - pci_create_sysfs_dev_files(dev);
> > + pci_create_sysfs_dev_files(dev, false);
> > pci_proc_attach_device(dev);
> > pci_bridge_d3_update(dev);
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
> > index 6d78df981d41..b0c4852a51dd 100644
> > --- a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
> > +++ b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
> > @@ -1328,13 +1328,13 @@ static int pci_create_capabilities_sysfs(struct pci_dev *dev)
> > return retval;
> > }
> >
> > -int __must_check pci_create_sysfs_dev_files(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> > +int __must_check pci_create_sysfs_dev_files(struct pci_dev *pdev, bool sysfs_initializing)
> > {
> > int retval;
> > int rom_size;
> > struct bin_attribute *attr;
> >
> > - if (!sysfs_initialized)
> > + if (!sysfs_initializing && !sysfs_initialized)
> > return -EACCES;
> >
> > if (pdev->cfg_size > PCI_CFG_SPACE_SIZE)
> > @@ -1437,18 +1437,21 @@ void pci_remove_sysfs_dev_files(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> > static int __init pci_sysfs_init(void)
> > {
> > struct pci_dev *pdev = NULL;
> > - int retval;
> > + int retval = 0;
> >
> > - sysfs_initialized = 1;
> > for_each_pci_dev(pdev) {
> > - retval = pci_create_sysfs_dev_files(pdev);
> > + if (!pci_dev_is_added(pdev))
> > + continue;
> > + retval = pci_create_sysfs_dev_files(pdev, true);
> > if (retval) {
> > pci_dev_put(pdev);
> > - return retval;
> > + goto out;
> > }
> > }
> >
> > - return 0;
> > +out:
> > + sysfs_initialized = 1;
> > + return retval;
> > }
> > late_initcall(pci_sysfs_init);
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci.h b/drivers/pci/pci.h
> > index 6d3f75867106..304294c7171e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/pci/pci.h
> > +++ b/drivers/pci/pci.h
> > @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ bool pcie_cap_has_rtctl(const struct pci_dev *dev);
> >
> > /* Functions internal to the PCI core code */
> >
> > -int pci_create_sysfs_dev_files(struct pci_dev *pdev);
> > +int pci_create_sysfs_dev_files(struct pci_dev *pdev, bool sysfs_initializing);
> > void pci_remove_sysfs_dev_files(struct pci_dev *pdev);
> > #if !defined(CONFIG_DMI) && !defined(CONFIG_ACPI)
> > static inline void pci_create_firmware_label_files(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> >
