linux-kernel - Re: [ofa-general] Re: list corruption on ib

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Date:	Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:15:59 -0500
From:	Pete Wyckoff <pw@....edu>
To:	David Dillow <dave@...dillows.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, general@...ts.openfabrics.org
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: list corruption on ib_srp load in v2.6.24-rc5

dave@...dillows.org wrote on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:18 -0500:
> On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 16:52 -0500, David Dillow wrote:
> > I'm getting the following oops when doing the following commands:
> > 
> > modprobe ib_srp
> > <add targets(s) to ib_srp using sysfs>
> > rmmod ib_srp
> > modprobe ib_srp
> > <OOPS>
> > 
> > I'm going to try and track down how the list is getting corrupted; it
> > looks like attribute_container_list in
> > drivers/base/attribute_container.c is the one getting corrupted.
> 
> Ok, found the culprit, now to figure out the motive and fix it.
> 
> ib_srp's srp_cleanup_module calls srp_release_transport(), which calls
> transport_container_unregister() for the rport_attr_cont member of
> struct srp_internal.
> 
> That last unregister call is returning -EBUSY, but it gets ignored, and
> the list node gets erased (or just reused) when the module's text/memory
> is free'd.
> 
> Now, to see if ib_srp should be waiting for everything to be destroyed
> before calling srp_release_transport(), or if it is just not removing
> some attributes properly.

I don't see where srp_cleanup_module() is calling srp_remove_host().
That is the likely way that transport devices should be made to go
away.  Something on the order of srp_remove_work().

Or srp_remove_one() except with a call to srp_remove_host() may be
necessary.  In fact, maybe just adding that call will fix it, as
ib_unregister_client should drive the remove function.  Guesses, all
this.

		-- Pete
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