linux/drivers/base
Rafael J. Wysocki 5e33bc4165 driver core / ACPI: Avoid device hot remove locking issues
device_hotplug_lock is held around the acpi_bus_trim() call in
acpi_scan_hot_remove() which generally removes devices (it removes
ACPI device objects at least, but it may also remove "physical"
device objects through .detach() callbacks of ACPI scan handlers).
Thus, potentially, device sysfs attributes are removed under that
lock and to remove those attributes it is necessary to hold the
s_active references of their directory entries for writing.

On the other hand, the execution of a .show() or .store() callback
from a sysfs attribute is carried out with that attribute's s_active
reference held for reading.  Consequently, if any device sysfs
attribute that may be removed from within acpi_scan_hot_remove()
through acpi_bus_trim() has a .store() or .show() callback which
acquires device_hotplug_lock, the execution of that callback may
deadlock with the removal of the attribute.  [Unfortunately, the
"online" device attribute of CPUs and memory blocks is one of them.]

To avoid such deadlocks, make all of the sysfs attribute callbacks
that need to lock device hotplug, for example store_online(), use
a special function, lock_device_hotplug_sysfs(), to lock device
hotplug and return the result of that function immediately if it is
not zero.  This will cause the s_active reference of the directory
entry in question to be released and the syscall to be restarted
if device_hotplug_lock cannot be acquired.

[show_online() actually doesn't need to lock device hotplug, but
it is useful to serialize it with respect to device_offline() and
device_online() for the same device (in case user space attempts to
run them concurrently) which can be done with the help of
device_lock().]

Reported-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
2013-08-29 22:00:53 +02:00
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power Merge branch 'pm-assorted' 2013-06-28 13:01:40 +02:00
regmap regmap: cache: Make sure to sync the last register in a block 2013-08-05 15:51:09 +01:00
attribute_container.c drivers: avoid format string in dev_set_name 2013-07-03 16:07:41 -07:00
base.h driver/base: implement subsys_virtual_register() 2013-03-12 11:36:35 -07:00
bus.c driver core: export subsys_virtual_register 2013-05-21 09:05:52 -07:00
class.c driver-core: constify data for class_find_device() 2013-02-06 12:18:56 -08:00
core.c driver core / ACPI: Avoid device hot remove locking issues 2013-08-29 22:00:53 +02:00
cpu.c drivers: delete __cpuinit usage from all remaining drivers files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
dd.c PM / Runtime: Idle devices asynchronously after probe|release 2013-04-11 12:42:52 -07:00
devres.c Linux 3.9-rc3 2013-03-17 19:40:50 -07:00
devtmpfs.c driver core: handle user namespaces properly with the uid/gid devtmpfs change 2013-04-11 11:43:29 -07:00
dma-buf.c [media] dma-buf: Cocci spatch "ptr_ret.spatch" 2013-06-08 20:00:29 -03:00
dma-coherent.c drivers: dma-coherent: Fix typo in dma_mmap_from_coherent documentation 2012-10-23 14:05:32 +02:00
dma-contiguous.c drivers: cma: represent physical addresses as phys_addr_t 2012-12-11 09:28:09 +01:00
dma-mapping.c [media] dma-mapping: fix dma_common_get_sgtable() conditional compilation 2012-11-27 09:42:31 -02:00
driver.c driver core: don't trigger uevent after failure 2012-07-17 10:40:23 -07:00
firmware_class.c firmware loader: fix another compile warning with PM_SLEEP unset 2013-06-25 21:04:22 -07:00
firmware.c
hypervisor.c drivers/base: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE as required. 2011-10-31 19:31:38 -04:00
init.c driver-core: implement 'sysdev' functionality for regular devices and buses 2011-12-14 14:29:38 -08:00
isa.c
Kconfig Finally eradicate CONFIG_HOTPLUG 2013-06-03 14:20:18 -07:00
Makefile reservation: cross-device reservation support, v4 2013-06-28 12:02:15 +10:00
map.c
memory.c driver core / ACPI: Avoid device hot remove locking issues 2013-08-29 22:00:53 +02:00
module.c driver core: module.c: Use kasprintf 2010-05-21 09:37:29 -07:00
node.c drivers/base/node.c: switch to register_hotmemory_notifier() 2013-04-29 15:54:36 -07:00
pinctrl.c drivers: pinctrl sleep and idle states in the core 2013-06-16 11:56:52 +02:00
platform.c driver-core: fix new kernel-doc warning in base/platform.c 2013-07-16 22:43:50 -07:00
reservation.c reservation: cross-device reservation support, v4 2013-06-28 12:02:15 +10:00
soc.c mode_t whack-a-mole: ->is_visible() returns umode_t... 2012-05-29 23:28:42 -04:00
syscore.c PM: Reintroduce dropped call to check_wakeup_irqs 2011-07-11 10:51:49 +02:00
topology.c drivers: delete __cpuinit usage from all remaining drivers files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
transport_class.c drivers/base: transport_class explicitly requires EXPORT_SYMBOL 2011-10-31 19:31:15 -04:00