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Commit 5e9eff5d authored by Lijun Pan's avatar Lijun Pan Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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ibmvnic: device remove has higher precedence over reset

Returning -EBUSY in ibmvnic_remove() does not actually hold the
removal procedure since driver core doesn't care for the return
value (see __device_release_driver() in drivers/base/dd.c
calling dev->bus->remove()) though vio_bus_remove
(in arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c) records the
return value and passes it on. [1]

During the device removal precedure, checking for resetting
bit is dropped so that we can continue executing all the
cleanup calls in the rest of the remove function. Otherwise,
it can cause latent memory leaks and kernel crashes.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linuxppc-dev/20210117101242.dpwayq6wdgfdzirl@pengutronix.de/T/#m48f5befd96bc9842ece2a3ad14f4c27747206a53


Reported-by: default avatarUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Fixes: 7d7195a0

 ("ibmvnic: Do not process device remove during device reset")
Signed-off-by: default avatarLijun Pan <ljp@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210129043402.95744-1-ljp@linux.ibm.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent f72f2fb8
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