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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2012-04-06 13:41:06 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-04-10 14:48:51 -0700
commit3a198886ab5f228fcbebb9ace803d8b99721d49a (patch)
tree6f9132521f9d873ce1e3bf38c60d9ea4bdb87405 /fs
parent5631f2c18f4b2845b3e97df1c659c5094a17605f (diff)
downloadlinux-3a198886ab5f228fcbebb9ace803d8b99721d49a.tar.bz2
sysfs: handle 'parent deleted before child added'
In scsi at least two cases of the parent device being deleted before the child is added have been observed. 1/ scsi is performing async scans and the device is removed prior to the async can thread running (can happen with an in-opportune / unlikely unplug during initial scan). 2/ libsas discovery event running after the parent port has been torn down (this is a bug in libsas). Result in crash signatures like: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000098 IP: [<ffffffff8115e100>] sysfs_create_dir+0x32/0xb6 ... Process scsi_scan_8 (pid: 5417, threadinfo ffff88080bd16000, task ffff880801b8a0b0) Stack: 00000000fffffffe ffff880813470628 ffff88080bd17cd0 ffff88080614b7e8 ffff88080b45c108 00000000fffffffe ffff88080bd17d20 ffffffff8125e4a8 ffff88080bd17cf0 ffffffff81075149 ffff88080bd17d30 ffff88080614b7e8 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8125e4a8>] kobject_add_internal+0x120/0x1e3 [<ffffffff81075149>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf [<ffffffff8125e641>] kobject_add_varg+0x41/0x50 [<ffffffff8125e70b>] kobject_add+0x64/0x66 [<ffffffff8131122b>] device_add+0x12d/0x63a In this scenario the parent is still valid (because we have a reference), but it has been device_del()'d which means its kobj->sd pointer is NULL'd via: device_del()->kobject_del()->sysfs_remove_dir() ...and then sysfs_create_dir() (without this fix) goes ahead and de-references parent_sd via sysfs_ns_type(): return (sd->s_flags & SYSFS_NS_TYPE_MASK) >> SYSFS_NS_TYPE_SHIFT; This scenario is being fixed in scsi/libsas, but if other subsystems present the same ordering the system need not immediately crash. Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/dir.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index 8ddc1021c79a..35a36d39fa2c 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -729,6 +729,9 @@ int sysfs_create_dir(struct kobject * kobj)
else
parent_sd = &sysfs_root;
+ if (!parent_sd)
+ return -ENOENT;
+
if (sysfs_ns_type(parent_sd))
ns = kobj->ktype->namespace(kobj);
type = sysfs_read_ns_type(kobj);