This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
virtio: console: clean up port data immediately at time of unplug
to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
virtio-console-clean-up-port-data-immediately-at-time-of-unplug.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From ea3768b4386a8d1790f4cc9a35de4f55b92d6442 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:20:29 +0930
Subject: virtio: console: clean up port data immediately at time of unplug
From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit ea3768b4386a8d1790f4cc9a35de4f55b92d6442 upstream.
We used to keep the port's char device structs and the /sys entries
around till the last reference to the port was dropped. This is
actually unnecessary, and resulted in buggy behaviour:
1. Open port in guest
2. Hot-unplug port
3. Hot-plug a port with the same 'name' property as the unplugged one
This resulted in hot-plug being unsuccessful, as a port with the same
name already exists (even though it was unplugged).
This behaviour resulted in a warning message like this one:
-------------------8<---------------------------------------
WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:512 sysfs_add_one+0xc9/0x130() (Not tainted)
Hardware name: KVM
sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename
'/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/virtio0/virtio-ports/vport0p1'
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8106b607>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xc0
[<ffffffff8106b6f6>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
[<ffffffff811f2319>] ? sysfs_add_one+0xc9/0x130
[<ffffffff811f23e8>] ? create_dir+0x68/0xb0
[<ffffffff811f2469>] ? sysfs_create_dir+0x39/0x50
[<ffffffff81273129>] ? kobject_add_internal+0xb9/0x260
[<ffffffff812733d8>] ? kobject_add_varg+0x38/0x60
[<ffffffff812734b4>] ? kobject_add+0x44/0x70
[<ffffffff81349de4>] ? get_device_parent+0xf4/0x1d0
[<ffffffff8134b389>] ? device_add+0xc9/0x650
-------------------8<---------------------------------------
Instead of relying on guest applications to release all references to
the ports, we should go ahead and unregister the port from all the core
layers. Any open/read calls on the port will then just return errors,
and an unplug/plug operation on the host will succeed as expected.
This also caused buggy behaviour in case of the device removal (not just
a port): when the device was removed (which means all ports on that
device are removed automatically as well), the ports with active
users would clean up only when the last references were dropped -- and
it would be too late then to be referencing char device pointers,
resulting in oopses:
-------------------8<---------------------------------------
PID: 6162 TASK: ffff8801147ad500 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "cat"
#0 [ffff88011b9d5a90] machine_kexec at ffffffff8103232b
#1 [ffff88011b9d5af0] crash_kexec at ffffffff810b9322
#2 [ffff88011b9d5bc0] oops_end at ffffffff814f4a50
#3 [ffff88011b9d5bf0] die at ffffffff8100f26b
#4 [ffff88011b9d5c20] do_general_protection at ffffffff814f45e2
#5 [ffff88011b9d5c50] general_protection at ffffffff814f3db5
[exception RIP: strlen+2]
RIP: ffffffff81272ae2 RSP: ffff88011b9d5d00 RFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880118901c18 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff88011799982c RSI: 00000000000000d0 RDI: 3a303030302f3030
RBP: ffff88011b9d5d38 R8: 0000000000000006 R9: ffffffffa0134500
R10: 0000000000001000 R11: 0000000000001000 R12: ffff880117a1cc10
R13: 00000000000000d0 R14: 0000000000000017 R15: ffffffff81aff700
ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018
#6 [ffff88011b9d5d00] kobject_get_path at ffffffff8126dc5d
#7 [ffff88011b9d5d40] kobject_uevent_env at ffffffff8126e551
#8 [ffff88011b9d5dd0] kobject_uevent at ffffffff8126e9eb
#9 [ffff88011b9d5de0] device_del at ffffffff813440c7
-------------------8<---------------------------------------
So clean up when we have all the context, and all that's left to do when
the references to the port have dropped is to free up the port struct
itself.
Reported-by: chayang <chayang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: YOGANANTH SUBRAMANIAN <anantyog@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: FuXiangChun <xfu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Qunfang Zhang <qzhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Sibiao Luo <sluo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 16 ++++++++--------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
@@ -1246,14 +1246,6 @@ static void remove_port(struct kref *kre
port = container_of(kref, struct port, kref);
- sysfs_remove_group(&port->dev->kobj, &port_attribute_group);
- device_destroy(pdrvdata.class, port->dev->devt);
- cdev_del(port->cdev);
-
- kfree(port->name);
-
- debugfs_remove(port->debugfs_file);
-
kfree(port);
}
@@ -1302,6 +1294,14 @@ static void unplug_port(struct port *por
*/
port->portdev = NULL;
+ sysfs_remove_group(&port->dev->kobj, &port_attribute_group);
+ device_destroy(pdrvdata.class, port->dev->devt);
+ cdev_del(port->cdev);
+
+ kfree(port->name);
+
+ debugfs_remove(port->debugfs_file);
+
/*
* Locks around here are not necessary - a port can't be
* opened after we removed the port struct from ports_list
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from amit.shah@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.0/virtio-console-fix-raising-sigio-after-port-unplug.patch
queue-3.0/virtio-console-clean-up-port-data-immediately-at-time-of-unplug.patch
queue-3.0/virtio-console-fix-race-in-port_fops_open-and-port-unplug.patch
queue-3.0/virtio-console-return-enodev-on-all-read-operations-after-unplug.patch
queue-3.0/virtio-console-fix-race-with-port-unplug-and-open-close.patch
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