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: [<ffffffff8115e100>] 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:
  [<ffffffff8125e4a8>] kobject_add_internal+0x120/0x1e3
  [<ffffffff81075149>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf
  [<ffffffff8125e641>] kobject_add_varg+0x41/0x50
  [<ffffffff8125e70b>] kobject_add+0x64/0x66
  [<ffffffff8131122b>] 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 <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index 8ddc1021c79a288219a7943b4fe9605577e66e8e..35a36d39fa2cb2af62616918872706794a20d8e1 100644 (file)
--- 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);