We saw dozens of the following kernel waring: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 705 at fs/sysfs/group.c:224 sysfs_remove_group+0x54/0x88() sysfs group ffffffff81ab7670 not found for kobject '6:0:3:0' Modules linked in: cpufreq_ondemand x86_pkg_temp_thermal coretemp kvm_intel kvm microcode raid0 iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support sb_edac edac_core lpc_ich mfd_core ioatdma i2c_i801 shpchp wmi hed acpi_cpufreq lp parport tcp_diag inet_diag ipmi_si ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler sch_fq_codel igb ptp pps_core i2c_algo_bit i2c_core crc32c_intel isci libsas scsi_transport_sas dca ipv6 CPU: 0 PID: 705 Comm: kworker/u240:0 Not tainted 4.1.35.el7.x86_64 #1 Hardware name: WIWYNN Lyra/JD/S2600GZ, BIOS SE5C600.86B.02.03.2004.030620151456 03/06/2015 Workqueue: scsi_wq_6 sas_destruct_devices [libsas] 0000000000000000 ffff88056c393ba8 ffffffff81544a6d ffff88056c393bf8 0000000000000009 ffff88056c393be8 ffffffff81069b4c ffff88081790d078 ffffffff811dad37 0000000000000000 ffffffff81ab7670 ffff88081b29dc10 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81544a6d>] dump_stack+0x4d/0x63 [<ffffffff81069b4c>] warn_slowpath_common+0xa1/0xbb [<ffffffff811dad37>] ? sysfs_remove_group+0x54/0x88 [<ffffffff81069bac>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x48 [<ffffffff811d77ad>] ? kernfs_find_and_get_ns+0x4d/0x58 [<ffffffff811dad37>] sysfs_remove_group+0x54/0x88 [<ffffffff81387835>] dpm_sysfs_remove+0x50/0x55 [<ffffffff8137de7c>] device_del+0x47/0x1ec [<ffffffff815482f7>] ? mutex_unlock+0x16/0x18 [<ffffffff8137e069>] device_unregister+0x48/0x54 [<ffffffff8128eb82>] bsg_unregister_queue+0x5f/0x86 [<ffffffff813aac83>] __scsi_remove_device+0x3a/0xc3 [<ffffffff813aad32>] scsi_remove_device+0x26/0x33 [<ffffffff813aaea2>] scsi_remove_target+0x134/0x19b [<ffffffffa0078725>] sas_rphy_remove+0x2c/0x72 [scsi_transport_sas] [<ffffffffa007877e>] sas_rphy_delete+0x13/0x1f [scsi_transport_sas] [<ffffffffa008817c>] sas_destruct_devices+0x58/0x79 [libsas] [<ffffffff8107cca1>] process_one_work+0x19b/0x2d1 [<ffffffff8107d38e>] worker_thread+0x1dd/0x2bb [<ffffffff8107d1b1>] ? cancel_delayed_work+0x72/0x72 [<ffffffff8108165a>] kthread+0xa5/0xad [<ffffffff81080000>] ? task_work_add+0xd/0x53 [<ffffffff810815b5>] ? __kthread_parkme+0x61/0x61 [<ffffffff8154a492>] ret_from_fork+0x42/0x70 [<ffffffff810815b5>] ? __kthread_parkme+0x61/0x61
It looks like we don't wait for sas destruct work properly on tear down path, at least sas_deform_port() calls sas_unregister_domain_devices() to schedule destruct work to a workqueue and then calls sas_port_delete() to remove the related sysfs files concurrently. Dan tried to fix this with a different way: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6450921/ but that patch is never applied. I take a better approach as suggested by Johannes, that is waiting for pending destruct work to remove child sysfs files and then removing the parent sysfs files. Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.willi...@intel.com> Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumsh...@suse.de> Cc: Praveen Murali <pmur...@logicube.com> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <j...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.peter...@oracle.com> Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> --- drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_discover.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_discover.c b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_discover.c index 60de66252fa2..27c11fc7aa2b 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_discover.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/libsas/sas_discover.c @@ -388,6 +388,11 @@ void sas_unregister_dev(struct asd_sas_port *port, struct domain_device *dev) } } +static void sas_flush_work(struct asd_sas_port *port) +{ + scsi_flush_work(port->ha->core.shost); +} + void sas_unregister_domain_devices(struct asd_sas_port *port, int gone) { struct domain_device *dev, *n; @@ -401,8 +406,8 @@ void sas_unregister_domain_devices(struct asd_sas_port *port, int gone) list_for_each_entry_safe(dev, n, &port->disco_list, disco_list_node) sas_unregister_dev(port, dev); + sas_flush_work(port); port->port->rphy = NULL; - } void sas_device_set_phy(struct domain_device *dev, struct sas_port *port) -- 2.13.0