When the low level driver exercises the hot unplug they would call rdma_cm cma_remove_one which would fire DEVICE_REMOVAL event to all cma consumers. Now, if consumer doesn't make sure they destroy all IB objects created on that IB device instance prior to finalizing all processing of DEVICE_REMOVAL callback, rdma_cm will let the lld to de-register with IB core and destroy the IB device instance. And if the consumer calls (say) ib_dereg_mr(), it will crash since that dev object is NULL.
Yea... this used to work but sort of broke somewhere... Thanks Raju, the patch looks good, Acked-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Doug, Can you add a stable tag to this when picking it up? Thanks, Sagi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
