On Mon, 24 Jul 2017, 6:52am, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > The conversion of the cpu hotplug locking to a percpu rwsem does not longer > allow recursive locking of the hotplug lock. > > The BNX2I and BNX2FC drivers install/remove hotplug states with the hotplug > lock held. The install/removal code acquired the hotplug lock as well. > > While looking into this, I noticed an interesting hotplug race in the > BNX2FC driver, which could result in dereferencing a NULL pointer or freed > and potentially reused memory. > > The following series addresses these problems and as a final step on top it > simplifies the hotplug code in both drivers. > > Thanks, > > tglx > > ---- > drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_fcoe.c | 68 > ++++++++------------------------------ > drivers/scsi/bnx2fc/bnx2fc_hwi.c | 45 ++++++++++++------------- > drivers/scsi/bnx2i/bnx2i_init.c | 64 ++++++++--------------------------- > include/linux/cpuhotplug.h | 2 - > 4 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 126 deletions(-) >
We tested the series and everything was fine. Ack to the series. Acked-by: Chad Dupuis <chad.dup...@cavium.com>
