On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 22:11:41 -0700
Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:35:43 +0800
> "Zhang, Yanmin" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > pci_walk_bus has a race with pci_destroy_dev. When cb is called
> > in pci_walk_bus, pci_destroy_dev might unlink the dev pointed by next.
> > Later on in the next loop, pointer next becomes NULL and cause
> > kernel panic.
> >
> > Below patch against 2.6.17-rc4 fixes it by changing pci_bus_lock (spin_lock)
> > to pci_bus_sem (rw_semaphore).
>
> How does s/spinlock/rwsem/ fix a race??
oic. "and hold the lock across the callback".
Is the ranking of pci_bus_sem and dev->dev.sem correct+consistent? It
looks OK.
It might be worth making a not that the callback function cannot call any
PCI layer function which takes pci_bus_sem - that'll casue a recursive
down_read(), which is a nasty source of rare deadlocks.
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