Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] PCI/IOV: Fix deadlock when removing PF with enabled SR-IOV
From: Thorsten Leemhuis
Date: Sun Feb 01 2026 - 11:01:44 EST
Lo! Top-posting to facilitate processing.
The issue fixed by these patches is on my list on tracked regressions.
Makes me wonder: Did it fall through the cracks due to the festive
season, was this fixes in a different way, or is this obsolete for some
reason?
Ciao, Thorsten
On 12/16/25 23:14, Niklas Schnelle wrote:
> Hi Bjorn,
>
> Doing additional testing for a distribution backport of commit
> 05703271c3cd ("PCI/IOV: Add PCI rescan-remove locking when
> enabling/disabling SR-IOV") Benjamin found a hang with s390's
> recover attribute. Further investigation showed this to be a deadlock by
> recursively trying to take pci_rescan_remove lock when removing a PF
> with enabled SR-IOV.
>
> The issue can be reproduced on both s390 and x86_64 with:
>
> $ echo <NUM> > /sys/bus/pci/devices/<pf>/sriov_numvfs
> $ echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/<pf>/remove
>
> As this seems worse than the original, hard to hit, race fixed by the
> cited commit I think we first want to revert the broken fix.
>
> Following that patch 2 attempts to fix the original issue by taking the
> PCI rescan/remove lock directly before calling into the driver's
> sriov_configure() callback enforcing the rule that this should only
> be called with the pci_rescan_remove_lock held.
>
> Thanks,
> Niklas
>
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v3:
> - Rebased on v6.19-rc1, also verified issue is still there and the fix
> still works
> - Added more of the lockdep splat for better context
> - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251119-revert_sriov_lock-v2-0-ea50eb1e8f96@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Collected R-b from Benjamin
> - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251030-revert_sriov_lock-v1-0-70f82ade426f@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> ---
> Niklas Schnelle (2):
> Revert "PCI/IOV: Add PCI rescan-remove locking when enabling/disabling SR-IOV"
> PCI/IOV: Fix race between SR-IOV enable/disable and hotplug
>
> drivers/pci/iov.c | 9 ++++-----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> ---
> base-commit: 8f0b4cce4481fb22653697cced8d0d04027cb1e8
> change-id: 20251029-revert_sriov_lock-aef4557f360f
>
> Best regards,