From: "Ionut Nechita (Wind River)" <ionut.nechita@windriver.com>
To: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, bhelgaas@google.com
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Ionut Nechita <ionut.nechita@windriver.com>
Subject: [PATCH v10 0/2] PCI/IOV: Fix SR-IOV locking races and AB-BA deadlock
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:03:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260318210316.61975-1-ionut.nechita@windriver.com> (raw)
From: Ionut Nechita <ionut.nechita@windriver.com>
Hi Bjorn,
This is v10 of the fix for the SR-IOV race between driver .remove()
and concurrent hotplug events. v10 adds a second patch to fix the
AB-BA deadlock between device_lock and pci_rescan_remove_lock that
was reported by Guenter Roeck (via Google's AI review agent) and
confirmed by Benjamin Block.
The AB-BA deadlock:
CPU0 (remove_store) CPU1 (unbind_store)
-------------------- --------------------
pci_lock_rescan_remove()
device_lock()
driver .remove()
sriov_del_vfs()
pci_lock_rescan_remove() <-- WAITS
pci_stop_bus_device()
device_release_driver()
device_lock() <-- WAITS
Patch 2/2 fixes this by calling device_release_driver() in
remove_store() before pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device_locked(), so
that the driver is already unbound when pci_rescan_remove_lock is
acquired. Both paths then take locks in the same order: device_lock
first, then pci_rescan_remove_lock.
Note: the concurrent unbind_store + hotplug-event case (where the
hotplug handler takes pci_rescan_remove_lock before device_lock)
remains a known limitation. This is a pre-existing issue that
Benjamin Block is addressing separately in:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/354b9e4a54ced67f3c89df198041df19434fe4c8.1773235561.git.bblock@linux.ibm.com/
Changes since v9 (Mar 10):
- NEW patch 2/2: fix AB-BA deadlock in remove_store() by calling
device_release_driver() before pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device_locked(),
as suggested by Benjamin Block (addresses Guenter Roeck's report)
- Patch 1/2 unchanged from v9
Changes since v8 (Mar 9):
- Added Reviewed-by from Niklas Schnelle (IBM) and Tested-by (s390)
- Added Fixes tags for the three related commits
- Removed rescan/remove locking from sriov_numvfs_store() since
locking is now handled in sriov_add_vfs() and sriov_del_vfs()
- Rebased on linux-next (20260309)
This race has been independently observed by multiple organizations:
- IBM (s390 platform-generated hot-unplug events racing with
sriov_del_vfs during PF driver unload)
- NVIDIA (tested by Dragos Tatulea in earlier versions)
- Intel (xe driver hitting lockdep warnings and deadlocks when
calling pci_disable_sriov from .remove)
- Wind River (original reporter and patch author)
Test environment:
- Tested on s390 by Benjamin Block and Niklas Schnelle (IBM)
- Tested on x86_64 with Intel and NVIDIA SR-IOV devices (earlier
versions)
Based on linux-next (next-20260318).
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20260214193235.262219-3-ionut.nechita@windriver.com/ [v1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20260219212648.82606-1-ionut.nechita@windriver.com/ [v2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260225202434.18737-1-ionut.nechita@windriver.com/ [v3]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20260228120138.51197-2-ionut.nechita@windriver.com/ [v4]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20260303080903.28693-1-ionut.nechita@windriver.com/ [v5]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20260306082108.17322-1-ionut.nechita@windriver.com/ [v6]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20260308135352.80346-1-ionut.nechita@windriver.com/ [v7]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20260309194920.16459-1-ionut.nechita@windriver.com/ [v8]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20260310074303.17480-1-ionut.nechita@windriver.com/ [v9]
Ionut Nechita (2):
PCI/IOV: Make pci_lock_rescan_remove() reentrant and protect
sriov_add_vfs/sriov_del_vfs
PCI: Fix AB-BA deadlock between device_lock and
pci_rescan_remove_lock in remove_store
drivers/pci/iov.c | 9 +++++----
drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
drivers/pci/probe.c | 11 +++++++++--
3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-18 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-18 21:03 Ionut Nechita (Wind River) [this message]
2026-03-18 21:03 ` [PATCH v10 1/2] PCI/IOV: Make pci_lock_rescan_remove() reentrant and protect sriov_add_vfs/sriov_del_vfs Ionut Nechita (Wind River)
2026-03-18 21:03 ` [PATCH v10 2/2] PCI: Fix AB-BA deadlock between device_lock and pci_rescan_remove_lock in remove_store Ionut Nechita (Wind River)
2026-03-19 12:31 ` [PATCH v10 0/2] PCI/IOV: Fix SR-IOV locking races and AB-BA deadlock Niklas Schnelle
2026-03-19 19:25 ` Guenter Roeck
2026-03-19 20:27 ` Ionut Nechita (Wind River)
2026-03-24 17:07 ` Benjamin Block
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