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From: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
To: <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	<openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipmi_si: fix unexpected driver unregister warning
Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 15:40:31 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2bc308b-49d3-7a17-08b7-dce504898969@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190517161821.GB11017@minyard.net>


On 2019/5/18 0:18, Corey Minyard wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 06:12:44PM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
>> If ipmi_si_platform_init()->platform_driver_register() fails,
>> platform_driver_unregister() called unconditionally will trigger
>> following warning,
>>
>> ipmi_platform: Unable to register driver: -12
>> ------------[ cut here ]------------
>> Unexpected driver unregister!
>> WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 7210 at drivers/base/driver.c:193 driver_unregister+0x60/0x70 drivers/base/driver.c:193
>>
>> Fix it by adding platform_registered variable, only unregister platform
>> driver when it is already successfully registered.
> This is good, but have you found out why the driver was unable to
> register in the first place?  That really shouldn't happen.

Yes, it is hard to happen in  real scene, the test robot found this issue

when FAULT_INJECTION enabled.

>
> This patch is queued for 5.3.
>
> -corey
>
>> Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_platform.c | 6 +++++-
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_platform.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_platform.c
>> index f2a91c4d8cab..0cd849675d99 100644
>> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_platform.c
>> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_platform.c
>> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
>>  #include "ipmi_si.h"
>>  #include "ipmi_dmi.h"
>>  
>> +static bool platform_registered;
>>  static bool si_tryplatform = true;
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
>>  static bool          si_tryacpi = true;
>> @@ -469,9 +470,12 @@ void ipmi_si_platform_init(void)
>>  	int rv = platform_driver_register(&ipmi_platform_driver);
>>  	if (rv)
>>  		pr_err("Unable to register driver: %d\n", rv);
>> +	else
>> +		platform_registered = true;
>>  }
>>  
>>  void ipmi_si_platform_shutdown(void)
>>  {
>> -	platform_driver_unregister(&ipmi_platform_driver);
>> +	if (platform_registered)
>> +		platform_driver_unregister(&ipmi_platform_driver);
>>  }
>> -- 
>> 2.20.1
>>
> .
>


      reply	other threads:[~2019-05-18  7:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-17 10:12 Kefeng Wang
2019-05-17 10:12 ` [PATCH] ipmi_si: use bool type for initialized variable Kefeng Wang
2019-05-17 16:18   ` Corey Minyard
2019-05-17 16:18 ` [PATCH] ipmi_si: fix unexpected driver unregister warning Corey Minyard
2019-05-18  7:40   ` Kefeng Wang [this message]

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