ACK: [SRU bionic/master 1/1] UBUNTU: SAUCE: base/dd: limit release function changes to vfio driver only

[Colin Ian King]

On 06/12/2018 11:16, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> It seems that we can trigger the new race detection after remove()
> with some drivers which clear the driver as they unreference
> the module.  This leads us to fail to clear down those devices which
> triggers suspend/resume issues.
> 
> Limit the core changes to only apply to the vfio driver while we
> work with upstream on a more generic fix.
> 
> Fixes: 876dcb5f4576 ("UBUNTU: SAUCE: vfio -- release device lock before userspace requests")
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1803942
> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/base/dd.c           | 9 ++++++++-
>  drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c | 2 ++
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
> index 37c01054521b..6f7c38648ea0 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/dd.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
> @@ -820,6 +820,8 @@ int driver_attach(struct device_driver *drv)
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(driver_attach);
>  
> +void *vfio_pci_driver_ptr;
> +
>  /*
>   * __device_release_driver() must be called with @dev lock held.
>   * When called for a USB interface, @dev->parent lock must be held as well.
> @@ -872,8 +874,13 @@ static void __device_release_driver(struct device *dev, struct device *parent)
>  		 * A concurrent invocation of the same function might
>  		 * have released the driver successfully while this one
>  		 * was waiting, so check for that.
> +		 * LP: #1792099
> +		 *
> +		 * Limit this to the vfio_pci_driver as some drivers NULL
> +		 * out this pointer in their remove() function.
> +		 * LP: #1803942
>  		 */
> -		if (dev->driver != drv)
> +		if (drv == vfio_pci_driver_ptr && dev->driver != drv)
>  			return;
>  
>  		device_links_driver_cleanup(dev);
> diff --git a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
> index f041b1a6cf66..85d4fd395efb 100644
> --- a/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c
> @@ -1310,6 +1310,8 @@ static struct pci_driver vfio_pci_driver = {
>  	.remove		= vfio_pci_remove,
>  	.err_handler	= &vfio_err_handlers,
>  };
> +void *vfio_pci_driver_ptr = &vfio_pci_driver;
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfio_pci_driver_ptr);
>  
>  struct vfio_devices {
>  	struct vfio_device **devices;
> 

As a temporary workaround this seems OK to me, but only as a workaround.
 I'm assuming that this will be replaced by the official upstream fix at
a later date.

Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>