On 11/11/2016 08:12, wangyijing wrote:

They're not the same. I don't see how your solution properly deals with remote 
sas_port deletion.

When we unplug a device connected to an expander, can't the sas_port be deleted 
twice, in sas_unregister_devs_sas_addr() from domain revalidation and also now 
in sas_destruct_devices()? I think that this gives a NULL dereference.
And we still get the WARN as the sas_port has still been deleted before the 
device.

In my solution, we should always delete the sas_port after the attached device.


i.e. it moves the port destruction to the workqueue and still suffers
from the flutter problem:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=143801026028006&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=143801971131073&w=2

Perhaps we instead need to quiet this warning?

http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=143802229932175&w=2

I have not seen the flutter issue. I am just trying to solve the horrible WARN 
dump.
However I do understand that there may be a issue related to how we queue the 
events; there was a recent attempt to fix this, but it came to nothing:
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg99991.html

We found libsas hotplug several problems:
1. sysfs warning calltrace(like the case you found);

Maybe you can then review my patch.

2. hot-add and hot-remove work events may process out of order;
3. in some extreme cases, libsas may miss some events, if the same event is 
still pending in workqueue.


Can you tell me how to recreate #2 and #3?

It's a complex issue, we posted two patches, try to fix these issues, but now 
few people are interested in it  :(


IIRC, you sent as RFC and got a "reviewed-by" from Hannes, so I'm not sure what else you want. BTW, I thought that the changes were quite drastic.

John



Alternatively we need a mechanism to cancel in-flight port shutdown
requests when we start re-attaching devices before queued port
destruction events have run.

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