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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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linux driver core / ACPI: Avoid device hot remove locking issues 2013-08-29 22:00:53 +02:00
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