@@ -1260,14 +1260,6 @@ static void remove_port(struct kref *kref)
port = container_of(kref, struct port, kref);
- sysfs_remove_group(&port->dev->kobj, &port_attribute_group);
- device_destroy(pdrvdata.class, port->dev->devt);
- cdev_del(port->cdev);
-
- kfree(port->name);
-
- debugfs_remove(port->debugfs_file);
-
kfree(port);
}
@@ -1321,6 +1313,14 @@ static void unplug_port(struct port *port)
*/
port->portdev = NULL;
+ sysfs_remove_group(&port->dev->kobj, &port_attribute_group);
+ device_destroy(pdrvdata.class, port->dev->devt);
+ cdev_del(port->cdev);
+
+ kfree(port->name);
+
+ debugfs_remove(port->debugfs_file);
+
/*
* Locks around here are not necessary - a port can't be
* opened after we removed the port struct from ports_list
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled virtio: console: clean up port data immediately at time of to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Luis ------ From 4ca2664f8e25b41b4b0dac40b8133aa32f664bc8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 14:20:29 +0930 Subject: [PATCH] virtio: console: clean up port data immediately at time of unplug commit ea3768b4386a8d1790f4cc9a35de4f55b92d6442 upstream. We used to keep the port's char device structs and the /sys entries around till the last reference to the port was dropped. This is actually unnecessary, and resulted in buggy behaviour: 1. Open port in guest 2. Hot-unplug port 3. Hot-plug a port with the same 'name' property as the unplugged one This resulted in hot-plug being unsuccessful, as a port with the same name already exists (even though it was unplugged). This behaviour resulted in a warning message like this one: -------------------8<--------------------------------------- WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:512 sysfs_add_one+0xc9/0x130() (Not tainted) Hardware name: KVM sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/virtio0/virtio-ports/vport0p1' Call Trace: [<ffffffff8106b607>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xc0 [<ffffffff8106b6f6>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50 [<ffffffff811f2319>] ? sysfs_add_one+0xc9/0x130 [<ffffffff811f23e8>] ? create_dir+0x68/0xb0 [<ffffffff811f2469>] ? sysfs_create_dir+0x39/0x50 [<ffffffff81273129>] ? kobject_add_internal+0xb9/0x260 [<ffffffff812733d8>] ? kobject_add_varg+0x38/0x60 [<ffffffff812734b4>] ? kobject_add+0x44/0x70 [<ffffffff81349de4>] ? get_device_parent+0xf4/0x1d0 [<ffffffff8134b389>] ? device_add+0xc9/0x650 -------------------8<--------------------------------------- Instead of relying on guest applications to release all references to the ports, we should go ahead and unregister the port from all the core layers. Any open/read calls on the port will then just return errors, and an unplug/plug operation on the host will succeed as expected. This also caused buggy behaviour in case of the device removal (not just a port): when the device was removed (which means all ports on that device are removed automatically as well), the ports with active users would clean up only when the last references were dropped -- and it would be too late then to be referencing char device pointers, resulting in oopses: -------------------8<--------------------------------------- PID: 6162 TASK: ffff8801147ad500 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "cat" #0 [ffff88011b9d5a90] machine_kexec at ffffffff8103232b #1 [ffff88011b9d5af0] crash_kexec at ffffffff810b9322 #2 [ffff88011b9d5bc0] oops_end at ffffffff814f4a50 #3 [ffff88011b9d5bf0] die at ffffffff8100f26b #4 [ffff88011b9d5c20] do_general_protection at ffffffff814f45e2 #5 [ffff88011b9d5c50] general_protection at ffffffff814f3db5 [exception RIP: strlen+2] RIP: ffffffff81272ae2 RSP: ffff88011b9d5d00 RFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff880118901c18 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: ffff88011799982c RSI: 00000000000000d0 RDI: 3a303030302f3030 RBP: ffff88011b9d5d38 R8: 0000000000000006 R9: ffffffffa0134500 R10: 0000000000001000 R11: 0000000000001000 R12: ffff880117a1cc10 R13: 00000000000000d0 R14: 0000000000000017 R15: ffffffff81aff700 ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018 #6 [ffff88011b9d5d00] kobject_get_path at ffffffff8126dc5d #7 [ffff88011b9d5d40] kobject_uevent_env at ffffffff8126e551 #8 [ffff88011b9d5dd0] kobject_uevent at ffffffff8126e9eb #9 [ffff88011b9d5de0] device_del at ffffffff813440c7 -------------------8<--------------------------------------- So clean up when we have all the context, and all that's left to do when the references to the port have dropped is to free up the port struct itself. Reported-by: chayang <chayang@redhat.com> Reported-by: YOGANANTH SUBRAMANIAN <anantyog@in.ibm.com> Reported-by: FuXiangChun <xfu@redhat.com> Reported-by: Qunfang Zhang <qzhang@redhat.com> Reported-by: Sibiao Luo <sluo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> --- drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.2