Re: [PATCH 2/5 V2] PCI: pciehp: check and wait port status out of DPC before handling DLLSC and PDC

[Lukas Wunner]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 05:46:41PM +0800, Ethan Zhao wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 4:29 PM Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 11:27:46AM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> > > On 9/26/2020 11:28 PM, Ethan Zhao wrote:
> > > > --- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c
> > > > @@ -710,8 +710,10 @@ static irqreturn_t pciehp_ist(int irq, void *dev_id)
> > > >     down_read(&ctrl->reset_lock);
> > > >     if (events & DISABLE_SLOT)
> > > >             pciehp_handle_disable_request(ctrl);
> > > > -   else if (events & (PCI_EXP_SLTSTA_PDC | PCI_EXP_SLTSTA_DLLSC))
> > > > +   else if (events & (PCI_EXP_SLTSTA_PDC | PCI_EXP_SLTSTA_DLLSC)) {
> > > > +           pci_wait_port_outdpc(pdev);
> > > >             pciehp_handle_presence_or_link_change(ctrl, events);
> > > > +   }
> > > >     up_read(&ctrl->reset_lock);
> > >
> > > This looks like a hack TBH.
[...]
> > > Why is device lock not protecting this situation?
> > > Is there a lock missing in hotplug driver?
> >
> > According to Ethan's commit message, there are two issues here:
> > One, that pciehp may remove a device even though DPC recovered the error,
> > and two, that a null pointer deref occurs.
> >
> > The latter is most certainly not a locking issue but failure of DPC
> > to hold a reference on the pci_dev.
> 
> This is what patch 3/5 proposed to fix.

Please reorder the series to fix the null pointer deref first,
i.e. move patch 3 before patch 2.  If the null pointer deref is
fixed by patch 3, do not mention it in patch 2.

Thanks,

Lukas