Subject: [PATCH v2 3/3] PCI: Stop sriov after stop PF if PF's driver skip that From: Yinghai Lu After commit dc087f2f6a2925e81831f3016b9cbb6e470e7423 (PCI: Simplify IOV implementation and fix reference count races) VF need to be removed via virtfn_remove to make sure ref to PF is put back. Some driver (like ixgbe) does not call pci_disable_sriov() if sriov is enabled via /sys/.../sriov_numvfs setting. ixgbe does allow driver for PF get detached, but still have VFs around. But how about PF get removed via /sys or pciehp finally? During hot-remove, VF will still hold one ref to PF and it prevent PF to be removed. That make the next hot-add fails, as old PF dev struct is still around. We need to add pci_disable_sriov() calling during stop PF . Need this one for v3.11 -v2: Accoring to Bjorn, move that calling to pci_stop_dev. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu Cc: Jiang Liu Cc: Alexander Duyck Cc: Donald Dutile Cc: Greg Rose --- drivers/pci/remove.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6/drivers/pci/remove.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/pci/remove.c +++ linux-2.6/drivers/pci/remove.c @@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ static void pci_stop_dev(struct pci_dev pci_proc_detach_device(dev); pci_remove_sysfs_dev_files(dev); device_del(&dev->dev); + /* remove VF, if PF driver skip that */ + pci_disable_sriov(dev); dev->is_added = 0; }