Re: [PATH v2] NVMe: init nvme queue before enabling irq

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jan 20 2016 - 12:12:31 EST


On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 05:48:35AM -0500, Wenbo Wang wrote:
> From: Wenbo Wang <wenbo.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> During reset process, the nvme_dev->bar (ioremapped) may change,
> so nvmeq->q_db shall be also updated by nvme_init_queue().
>
> Currently nvmeq irq is enabled before queue init, so a spurious
> interrupt triggered nvme_process_cq may access nvmeq->q_db just
> before it is updated, this could cause kernel panic.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wenbo Wang <wenbo.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Wenwei Tao <wenwei.tao@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 14 +++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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