linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] scsi: ufshcd: Fix device links when BOOT WLUN fails to probe

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Date:   Thu, 8 Jul 2021 19:02:42 +0300
From:   Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>,
        "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        "James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "open list:TARGET SUBSYSTEM" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        Avri Altman <avri.altman@....com>,
        Bean Huo <huobean@...il.com>, Can Guo <cang@...eaurora.org>,
        Asutosh Das <asutoshd@...eaurora.org>,
        Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>,
        Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/2] scsi: ufshcd: Fix device links when BOOT WLUN
 fails to probe

On 8/07/21 6:12 pm, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 5:03 PM Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 8, 2021 at 4:17 PM Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 8/07/21 3:31 pm, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 7:49 PM Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7/07/21 8:39 pm, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 08:29:48PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
>>>>>>> If a LUN fails to probe (e.g. absent BOOT WLUN), the device will not have
>>>>>>> been registered but can still have a device link holding a reference to the
>>>>>>> device. The unwanted device link will prevent runtime suspend indefinitely,
>>>>>>> and cause some warnings if the supplier is ever deleted (e.g. by unbinding
>>>>>>> the UFS host controller). Fix by explicitly deleting the device link when
>>>>>>> SCSI destroys the SCSI device.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>  drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c | 7 +++++++
>>>>>>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c b/drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c
>>>>>>> index 708b3b62fc4d..483aa74fe2c8 100644
>>>>>>> --- a/drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c
>>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/scsi/ufs/ufshcd.c
>>>>>>> @@ -5029,6 +5029,13 @@ static void ufshcd_slave_destroy(struct scsi_device *sdev)
>>>>>>>              spin_lock_irqsave(hba->host->host_lock, flags);
>>>>>>>              hba->sdev_ufs_device = NULL;
>>>>>>>              spin_unlock_irqrestore(hba->host->host_lock, flags);
>>>>>>> +    } else {
>>>>>>> +            /*
>>>>>>> +             * If a LUN fails to probe (e.g. absent BOOT WLUN), the device
>>>>>>> +             * will not have been registered but can still have a device
>>>>>>> +             * link holding a reference to the device.
>>>>>>> +             */
>>>>>>> +            device_links_scrap(&sdev->sdev_gendev);
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What created that link?  And why did it do that before probe happened
>>>>>> successfully?
>>>>>
>>>>> The same driver created the link.
>>>>>
>>>>> The documentation seems to say it is allowed to, if it is the consumer.
>>>>> From Documentation/driver-api/device_link.rst
>>>>>
>>>>>   Usage
>>>>>   =====
>>>>>
>>>>>   The earliest point in time when device links can be added is after
>>>>>   :c:func:`device_add()` has been called for the supplier and
>>>>>   :c:func:`device_initialize()` has been called for the consumer.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, this is allowed, but if you've added device links to a device
>>>> object that is not going to be registered after all, you are
>>>> responsible for doing the cleanup.
>>>>
>>>> Why can't you call device_link_del() directly on those links?
>>>>
>>>> Or device_link_remove() if you don't want to deal with link pointers?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Those only work for DL_FLAG_STATELESS device links, but we use only
>>> DL_FLAG_PM_RUNTIME | DL_FLAG_RPM_ACTIVE flags.
>>
>> So I'd probably modify device_link_remove() to check if the consumer
>> device has been registered and run __device_link_del() directly
>> instead of device_link_put_kref() if it hasn't.
>>
>> Or add an argument to it to force the removal.
> 
> Or even modify device_link_put_kref() like this:
> 
>  static void device_link_put_kref(struct device_link *link)
>  {
>           if (link->flags & DL_FLAG_STATELESS)
>                   kref_put(&link->kref, __device_link_del);
> +        else if (!device_is_registered(link->consumer))
> +                __device_link_del(link);
>           else
>                  WARN(1, "Unable to drop a managed device link reference\n");
>  }
> 

Thanks! :-) I will do that.