From 3a198886ab5f228fcbebb9ace803d8b99721d49a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Williams Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 13:41:06 -0700 Subject: 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: [] 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: [] kobject_add_internal+0x120/0x1e3 [] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf [] kobject_add_varg+0x41/0x50 [] kobject_add+0x64/0x66 [] 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 Cc: James Bottomley Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/sysfs/dir.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c index 8ddc1021c79a28..35a36d39fa2cb2 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); -- cgit 1.2.3-korg