I noticed that after hot unplugging a Logitech unifying receiver
(drivers/hid/hid-logitech-dj.c) the kernel would occasionally spew a
stack trace similar to this:
usb 1-1.1.2: USB disconnect, device number 7
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2865 at fs/sysfs/group.c:216 device_del+0x40/0x1b0()
sysfs group
ffffffff8187fa20 not found for kobject 'hidraw0'
[...]
CPU: 0 PID: 2865 Comm: upowerd Tainted: G W 3.14.0-rc4 #7
Hardware name: LENOVO 7783PN4/ , BIOS 9HKT43AUS 07/11/2011
0000000000000009 ffffffff814cd684 ffff880427ccfdf8 ffffffff810616e7
ffff88041ec61800 ffff880427ccfe48 ffff88041e444d80 ffff880426fab8e8
ffff880429359960 ffffffff8106174c ffffffff81714b98 0000000000000028
Call Trace:
[<
ffffffff814cd684>] ? dump_stack+0x41/0x51
[<
ffffffff810616e7>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x77/0x90
[<
ffffffff8106174c>] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4c/0x50
[<
ffffffff81374fd0>] ? device_del+0x40/0x1b0
[<
ffffffff8137516f>] ? device_unregister+0x2f/0x50
[<
ffffffff813751fa>] ? device_destroy+0x3a/0x40
[<
ffffffffa03ca245>] ? drop_ref+0x55/0x120 [hid]
[<
ffffffffa03ca3e6>] ? hidraw_release+0x96/0xb0 [hid]
[<
ffffffff811929da>] ? __fput+0xca/0x210
[<
ffffffff8107fe17>] ? task_work_run+0x97/0xd0
[<
ffffffff810139a9>] ? do_notify_resume+0x69/0xa0
[<
ffffffff814dbd22>] ? int_signal+0x12/0x17
---[ end trace
63f4a46f6566d737 ]---
During device removal hid_disconnect() is called via hid_hw_stop() to
stop the device and free all its resources, including the sysfs
files. The problem is that if a user space process, such as upowerd,
holds a reference to a hidraw file the corresponding sysfs files will
be kept around (drop_ref() does not call device_destroy() if the open
counter is not 0) and it will be usb_disconnect() who, by calling
device_del() for the USB device, will indirectly remove the sysfs
files of the hidraw device (sysfs_remove_dir() is recursive these
days). Because of this, by the time user space releases the last
reference to the hidraw file and drop_ref() tries to destroy the
device the sysfs files are already gone and the kernel will print
the warning above.
Fix this by calling device_destroy() at USB disconnect time.
Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.13
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>