Re: [RESEND BUGFIX PATCH 1/3] PCI/AER: fix pci_ops return NULL whenhotplug a pci bus which was doing aer error inject

[Yijing Wang]

On 2012/8/28 8:38, Huang Ying wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 23:05 +0800, Jiang Liu wrote:
>> Is it ok to ignore such a case? After all, aer_inject is just a test tool:)
>> It's not worth to change the core logic for such a corner case.
>> --Gerry
> 
> Why ignore?  At least you can prevent aer_inject from unload if
> something special happened.
> 

Hi Huang Ying,
   Thanks for your comments. It's my negligence. I will add some protection code when do #rmmod aer_inject(a race condition window about bus_ops),
I will correct it in the new version patch.

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Thanks!
Yijing


>> On 08/27/2012 09:23 AM, Huang Ying wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 17:59 +0800, Yijing Wang wrote:
>>>> When we inject aer errors to the target pci device by aer_inject module, the pci_ops of pci
>>>> bus which the target device is on will be assign to pci_ops_aer.So if the target pci device
>>>> is a bridge, once we hotplug the pci bus(child bus) which the target device bridges to, child
>>>> bus's pci_ops will be assigned to pci_ops_aer too.Now every access to the child bus's device
>>>> will result to system panic, because it return NULL pci_ops in pci_read_aer.
>>>> This patch fix this.



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