Re: [PATCH] device-dax: avoid hang on error before devm_memremap_pages()

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 5:26 PM, Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 7/31/2018 7:32 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>
>> dax_pmem_percpu_exit() waits for dax_pmem_percpu_release() to invoke the
>> dax_pmem->cmp completion.  Unfortunately this approach to cleaning up
>> the percpu_ref only works after devm_memremap_pages() was successful.
>>
>> If devm_add_action_or_reset() or devm_memremap_pages() fails,
>> dax_pmem_percpu_release() is not invoked.  Therefore
>> dax_pmem_percpu_exit() hangs waiting for the completion:
>>
>>    rc = devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, dax_pmem_percpu_exit,
>>                                 &dax_pmem->ref);
>>    if (rc)
>>         return rc;
>>
>>    dax_pmem->pgmap.ref = &dax_pmem->ref;
>>    addr = devm_memremap_pages(dev, &dax_pmem->pgmap);
>>
>> Avoid the hang by calling percpu_ref_exit() in the error paths instead
>> of going through dax_pmem_percpu_exit().
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>
> Applied
>

A similar problem exists in other devm_memremap_pages() users. I had a
more comprehensive fix in-flight that I will rebase on top of this
change.

    https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/961576/