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SubjectRe: [3.11.4] Thunderbolt/PCI unplug oops in pci_pme_list_scan
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On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>> Bisection points to 928bea964827d7824b548c1f8e06eccbbc4d0d7d .
>>>>
>>>> This is "PCI: Delay enabling bridges until they're needed" by Yinghai.
>>>
>>> that double disabling should be addressed by:
>>>
>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/25/608
>>>
>>> [PATCH] PCI: Remove duplicate pci_disable_device for pcie port
>>
>> I'll look at that patch again. I had some questions about it the
>> first time, but perhaps it makes more sense after 928bea9648 has been
>> applied.
>>
>> Andreas originally reported a GPF oops in pci_pme_list_scan(). I
>> posted a refcounting patch, which made the problem go away, but I
>> can't explain why, and I don't want to apply it without understanding
>> that. Decoding his oops shows this:
>>
>> 24: 0f 1f 00 nopl (%rax)
>> 27: 48 8b 50 10 mov 0x10(%rax),%rdx
>> 2b:* 48 8b 52 38 mov 0x38(%rdx),%rdx <-- trapping instruction
>> 2f: 48 85 d2 test %rdx,%rdx
>>
>> %rax is the pci_dev pointer, so 0x10(%rax) is the dev->bus pointer,
>> which we put in %rdx. The oops says %rdx = 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b, which is
>> POISON_FREE, so I think we loaded dev->bus out of a struct pci_dev
>> that has already been freed.
>>
>> pci_pme_list_scan() holds pci_pme_list_mutex while it traverses
>> pci_pme_list, and the pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device() path removes
>> the pci_dev by calling pci_pme_active(), which also holds
>> pci_pme_list_mutex, so I don't understand how pci_pme_list_scan() can
>> see a pci_dev that has already been freed.
>>
>> If I understand Andreas correctly, 928bea9648 also fixes the crash,
>> even without my refcounting change. Can you explain why?
>
> 928bea will make the dev->enable_cnt increase wrongly, as we have
> pci_enable_device for child
> pci_enable_bridge for parent
> pci_enable_bridge for grandparent
> pci_enable_device for grandparent
> pci_enable_device for parent
> pci_enable_brdige for grandparent
> pci_enable_device for grandparent. ===> looks like i read the code wrongly. This one is skipped as we have pci_is_enabled checking.

928bea delay bridge enabling, and it's pci_is_enabled checking will prevent
pci bridge get enabled second time, so enable_cnt will be only 1. instead of
2. if we enable bridge at first and then pcie port driver.

Yinghai


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