Re: [PATCH] ses: do not add a device to an enclosure if enclosure_add_links() fails.

[Maurizio Lombardi]

Douglas,

> Has there been any progress with getting this patch accepted?
> 

It has been merged already.
It's in linux-next, commit 62e62ffd95539b9220894a7900a619e0f3ef4756

https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next/+/62e62ffd95539b9220894a7900a619e0f3ef4756

Maurizio.

Re: [PATCH] ses: do not add a device to an enclosure if enclosure_add_links() fails.

[Douglas Miller]

On 06/27/2017 07:50 AM, Douglas Miller wrote:

On 06/27/2017 04:53 AM, Maurizio Lombardi wrote:

The enclosure_add_device() function should fail if it can't
create the relevant sysfs links.

Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi 
---
  drivers/misc/enclosure.c | 14 ++
  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
index d3fe3ea..eb29113 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
@@ -375,6 +375,7 @@ int enclosure_add_device(struct enclosure_device 
*edev, int component,

   struct device *dev)
  {
  struct enclosure_component *cdev;
+int err;

  if (!edev || component >= edev->components)
  return -EINVAL;
@@ -384,12 +385,17 @@ int enclosure_add_device(struct 
enclosure_device *edev, int component,

  if (cdev->dev == dev)
  return -EEXIST;

-if (cdev->dev)
+if (cdev->dev) {
  enclosure_remove_links(cdev);
-
-put_device(cdev->dev);
+put_device(cdev->dev);
+}
  cdev->dev = get_device(dev);
-return enclosure_add_links(cdev);
+err = enclosure_add_links(cdev);
+if (err) {
+put_device(cdev->dev);
+cdev->dev = NULL;
+}
+return err;
  }
  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(enclosure_add_device);


Tested-by: Douglas Miller 

This fixes a problem where udevd (insmod ses) races with/overtakes 
do_scan_async(), which creates the directory target of the symlink, 
resulting in missing enclosure symlinks. This patch relaxes the 
symlink creation allowing for delayed addition to enclosure and 
creation of symlinks after do_scan_async() has created the target 
directory.



Has there been any progress with getting this patch accepted?

Re: [PATCH] ses: do not add a device to an enclosure if enclosure_add_links() fails.

[Martin K. Petersen]

Maurizio,

> The enclosure_add_device() function should fail if it can't
> create the relevant sysfs links.

Applied to 4.13/scsi-queue, thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen  Oracle Linux Engineering

Re: [PATCH] ses: do not add a device to an enclosure if enclosure_add_links() fails.

[James Bottomley]

On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 21:10 -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> Maurizio,
> 
> > 
> > The enclosure_add_device() function should fail if it can't
> > create the relevant sysfs links.
> 
> James?

It's essentially the patch I proposed, so I'm fine with it.  Although I
would like more root cause analysis about why we have this problem.

James

Re: [PATCH] ses: do not add a device to an enclosure if enclosure_add_links() fails.

[Martin K. Petersen]

Maurizio,

> The enclosure_add_device() function should fail if it can't
> create the relevant sysfs links.

James?

-- 
Martin K. Petersen  Oracle Linux Engineering

Re: [PATCH] ses: do not add a device to an enclosure if enclosure_add_links() fails.

[Douglas Miller]

On 06/27/2017 04:53 AM, Maurizio Lombardi wrote:

The enclosure_add_device() function should fail if it can't
create the relevant sysfs links.

Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi 
---
  drivers/misc/enclosure.c | 14 ++
  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
index d3fe3ea..eb29113 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/enclosure.c
@@ -375,6 +375,7 @@ int enclosure_add_device(struct enclosure_device *edev, int 
component,
 struct device *dev)
  {
struct enclosure_component *cdev;
+   int err;

if (!edev || component >= edev->components)
return -EINVAL;
@@ -384,12 +385,17 @@ int enclosure_add_device(struct enclosure_device *edev, 
int component,
if (cdev->dev == dev)
return -EEXIST;

-   if (cdev->dev)
+   if (cdev->dev) {
enclosure_remove_links(cdev);
-
-   put_device(cdev->dev);
+   put_device(cdev->dev);
+   }
cdev->dev = get_device(dev);
-   return enclosure_add_links(cdev);
+   err = enclosure_add_links(cdev);
+   if (err) {
+   put_device(cdev->dev);
+   cdev->dev = NULL;
+   }
+   return err;
  }
  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(enclosure_add_device);


Tested-by: Douglas Miller 

This fixes a problem where udevd (insmod ses) races with/overtakes 
do_scan_async(), which creates the directory target of the symlink, 
resulting in missing enclosure symlinks. This patch relaxes the symlink 
creation allowing for delayed addition to enclosure and creation of 
symlinks after do_scan_async() has created the target directory.