[Xen-devel] [PATCH v3 2/7] xen/pciback: Don't deadlock when unbinding.

[konrad@xxxxxxxxxx]

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>

As commit 0a9fd0152929db372ff61b0d6c280fdd34ae8bdb
'xen/pciback: Document the entry points for 'pcistub_put_pci_dev''
explained there are four entry points in this function.
Two of them are when the user fiddles in the SysFS to
unbind a device which might be in use by a guest or not.

Both 'unbind' states will cause a deadlock as the the PCI lock has
already been taken, which then pci_device_reset tries to take.

We can omit this by detecting this and using the  'already
locked' variant of the pci_device_reset - but we don't need to
do either as that is done much later when the PCIback device
structures are destroyed. As such lets use the 'try_reset'
variant. That means we still end up FLR-ing the device in
between swapping it from one guest to another. The FLR when
'unbind' part is still taken care by pci_device_reset.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/xen/xen-pciback/pci_stub.c |   11 ++++++++---
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/xen-pciback/pci_stub.c 
b/drivers/xen/xen-pciback/pci_stub.c
index 8a69a9f..b1fb099 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/xen-pciback/pci_stub.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/xen-pciback/pci_stub.c
@@ -277,10 +277,15 @@ void pcistub_put_pci_dev(struct pci_dev *dev)
         * (so it's ready for the next domain)
         */
 
-       /* This is OK - we are running from workqueue context
-        * and want to inhibit the user from fiddling with 'reset'
+       /* We might be holding the PCI lock (see comment at the top of the
+        * function) - as such try lock and if we can't then don't worry -
+        * as either:
+        *  - we are 'unbind' in which case 'pcistub_device_release' gets
+        *    called which does the locked version of this.
+        *  - the toolstack has the smarts to do it and has done the
+        *    reset on SysFS before assigning this device to another guest.
         */
-       pci_reset_function(dev);
+       pci_try_reset_function(dev);
        pci_restore_state(dev);
 
        /* This disables the device. */
-- 
1.7.7.6


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