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Message-ID: <888d3984-d00e-4148-a1ca-f7887c0af413@raptorengineering.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 12:08:27 -0500
From: Shawn Anastasio <sanastasio@...torengineering.com>
To: Krishna Kumar <krishnak@...ux.ibm.com>, mpe@...erman.id.au,
npiggin@...il.com
Cc: nathanl@...ux.ibm.com, aneesh.kumar@...nel.org,
linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
christophe.leroy@...roup.eu, gbatra@...ux.ibm.com, bhelgaas@...gle.com,
tpearson@...torengineering.com, oohall@...il.com, brking@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
mahesh.salgaonkar@...ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] pci/hotplug/pnv_php: Fix hotplug driver crash on
Powernv
Hi Krishna,
On 6/24/24 7:09 AM, Krishna Kumar wrote:
> Description of the problem: The hotplug driver for powerpc
> (pci/hotplug/pnv_php.c) gives kernel crash when we try to
> hot-unplug/disable the PCIe switch/bridge from the PHB.
>
> Root Cause of Crash: The crash is due to the reason that, though the msi
> data structure has been released during disable/hot-unplug path and it
> has been assigned with NULL, still during unregistartion the code was
> again trying to explicitly disable the msi which causes the Null pointer
> dereference and kernel crash.
>
> Proposed Fix : The fix is to correct the check during unregistration path
> so that the code should not try to invoke pci_disable_msi/msix() if its
> data structure is already freed.
>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...nel.org>
> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
> Cc: Gaurav Batra <gbatra@...ux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@...ux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Brian King <brking@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krishnak@...ux.ibm.com>
As with v1, I can confirm that this patch solves the panic encountered
when hotplugging PCIe bridges on POWER9.
Tested-by: Shawn Anastasio <sanastasio@...torengineering.com>
Thanks,
Shawn
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