linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/5] scsi/bnx2*: Plug hotplug race, correct locking and simplify hotplug code

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Date:   Wed, 26 Jul 2017 21:58:38 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        QLogic-Storage-Upstream@...gic.com, martin.petersen@...cle.com,
        James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
        linux-scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] scsi/bnx2*: Plug hotplug race, correct locking and simplify hotplug code


Thomas,

> The conversion of the cpu hotplug locking to a percpu rwsem does not
> longer allow recursive locking of the hotplug lock.
>
> The BNX2I and BNX2FC drivers install/remove hotplug states with the
> hotplug lock held. The install/removal code acquired the hotplug lock
> as well.
>
> While looking into this, I noticed an interesting hotplug race in the
> BNX2FC driver, which could result in dereferencing a NULL pointer or
> freed and potentially reused memory.
>
> The following series addresses these problems and as a final step on
> top it simplifies the hotplug code in both drivers.

Applied to 4.13/scsi-fixes. Thank you!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering