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The struct pci_dev uses reference counting but zPCI assumed erroneously that the last reference would always be the local reference after calling pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device(). This is usually the case but not how reference counting works and thus inherently fragile. In fact one case where this causes a NULL pointer dereference when on an SRIOV device the function 0 was hot unplugged before another function of the same multi-function device. In this case the second function's pdev->sriov->dev reference keeps the struct pci_dev of function 0 alive even after the unplug. This bug was previously hidden by the fact that we were leaking the struct pci_dev which in turn means that it always outlived the struct zpci_dev. This was fixed in commit0b13525c20("s390/pci: fix leak of PCI device structure") exposing the broken behavior. Fix this by accounting for the long living reference a struct pci_dev has to its underlying struct zpci_dev via the zbus->function[] array and only release that in pcibios_release_device() ensuring that the struct pci_dev is not left with a dangling reference. This is a minimal fix in the future it would probably better to use fine grained reference counting for struct zpci_dev. Fixes:05bc1be6db("s390/pci: create zPCI bus") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.