Re: [PATCH] RDMA/device: Fix a race between mad_client and cm_client init

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 02:48:14PM +0800, Shifeng Li wrote:

> The root cause is that mad_client and cm_client may init concurrently
> when devices_rwsem write semaphore is downgraded in enable_device_and_get() like:

That can't be true, the module loader infrastructue ensures those two
things are sequential.

You are trying to say that the post-client fixup stuff will still see
the DEVICE_REGISTERED before it reaches the clients_rwsem lock?

That probably just says the clients_rwsem should be obtained before
changing the DEVICE_STATE too :\

Jason