When root port has DPC capability and it is enabled, then triggered by errors, DPC DLLSC and PDC interrupts will be sent to DPC driver, pciehp driver at the same time. That will cause following result: 1. Link and device are recovered by hardware DPC and software DPC driver, device isn't removed, but the pciehp might treat it as device was hot removed. 2. Race condition happens bettween pciehp_unconfigure_device() called by pciehp_ist() in pciehp driver and pci_do_recovery() called by dpc_handler in DPC driver. no luck, there is no lock to protect pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device() against pci_walk_bus(), they hold different samphore and mutex, pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device holds pci_rescan_remove_lock, and pci_walk_bus() holds pci_bus_sem. This race condition is not purely code analysis, it could be triggered by following command series: # setpci -s 64:02.0 0x196.w=000a // 64:02.0 rootport has DPC capability # setpci -s 65:00.0 0x04.w=0544 // 65:00.0 NVMe SSD populated in port # mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 nvme One shot will cause system panic and NULL pointer reference happened. (tested on stable 5.8 & ICS(Ice Lake SP platform, see https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/ice_lake_(server)) Buffer I/O error on dev nvme0n1p1, logical block 3328, async page read BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000050 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 12 PID: 513 Comm: irq/124-pcie-dp Not tainted 5.8.0 el8.x86_64+ #1 RIP: 0010:report_error_detected.cold.4+0x7d/0xe6 Code: b6 d0 e8 e8 fe 11 00 e8 16 c5 fb ff be 06 00 00 00 48 89 df e8 d3 65 ff ff b8 06 00 00 00 e9 75 fc ff ff 48 8b 43 68 45 31 c9 <48> 8b 50 50 48 83 3a 00 41 0f 94 c1 45 31 c0 48 85 d2 41 0f 94 c0 RSP: 0018:ff8e06cf8762fda8 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ff4e3eaacf42a000 RCX: ff4e3eb31f223c01 RDX: ff4e3eaacf42a140 RSI: ff4e3eb31f223c00 RDI: ff4e3eaacf42a138 RBP: ff8e06cf8762fdd0 R08: 00000000000000bf R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 000000eb8ebeab53 R11: ffffffff93453258 R12: 0000000000000002 R13: ff4e3eaacf42a130 R14: ff8e06cf8762fe2c R15: ff4e3eab44733828 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ff4e3eab1fd00000(0000) knl GS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000050 CR3: 0000000f8f80a004 CR4: 0000000000761ee0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: ? report_normal_detected+0x20/0x20 report_frozen_detected+0x16/0x20 pci_walk_bus+0x75/0x90 ? dpc_irq+0x90/0x90 pcie_do_recovery+0x157/0x201 ? irq_finalize_oneshot.part.47+0xe0/0xe0 dpc_handler+0x29/0x40 irq_thread_fn+0x24/0x60 irq_thread+0xea/0x170 ? irq_forced_thread_fn+0x80/0x80 ? irq_thread_check_affinity+0xf0/0xf0 kthread+0x124/0x140 ? kthread_park+0x90/0x90 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 Modules linked in: nft_fib_inet......... CR2: 0000000000000050 With this patch, the handling flow of DPC containment and hotplug is partly ordered and serialized, let hardware DPC do the controller reset etc recovery action first, then DPC driver handling the call-back from device drivers, clear the DPC status, at the end, pciehp handle the DLLSC and PDC etc. Signed-off-by: Ethan Zhao <haifeng.zhao@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Wen Jin <wen.jin@xxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Shanshan Zhang <ShanshanX.Zhang@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes: V2: revise doc according to Andy's suggestion. drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c b/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c index 53433b37e181..6f271160f18d 100644 --- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c +++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c @@ -710,8 +710,10 @@ static irqreturn_t pciehp_ist(int irq, void *dev_id) down_read(&ctrl->reset_lock); if (events & DISABLE_SLOT) pciehp_handle_disable_request(ctrl); - else if (events & (PCI_EXP_SLTSTA_PDC | PCI_EXP_SLTSTA_DLLSC)) + else if (events & (PCI_EXP_SLTSTA_PDC | PCI_EXP_SLTSTA_DLLSC)) { + pci_wait_port_outdpc(pdev); pciehp_handle_presence_or_link_change(ctrl, events); + } up_read(&ctrl->reset_lock); ret = IRQ_HANDLED; -- 2.18.4