cxl: Fix race of nvdimm_bus object when creating nvdimm objects

Found issue during running of cxl-translate.sh unit test. Adding a 3s
sleep right before the test seems to make the issue reproduce fairly
consistently. The cxl_translate module has dependency on cxl_acpi and
causes orphaned nvdimm objects to reprobe after cxl_acpi is removed.
The nvdimm_bus object is registered by the cxl_nvb object when
cxl_acpi_probe() is called. With the nvdimm_bus object missing,
__nd_device_register() will trigger NULL pointer dereference when
accessing the dev->parent that points to &nvdimm_bus->dev.

[  192.884510] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 000000000000006c
[  192.895383] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS edk2-20250812-19.fc42 08/12/2025
[  192.897721] Workqueue: cxl_port cxl_bus_rescan_queue [cxl_core]
[  192.899459] RIP: 0010:kobject_get+0xc/0x90
[  192.924871] Call Trace:
[  192.925959]  <TASK>
[  192.926976]  ? pm_runtime_init+0xb9/0xe0
[  192.929712]  __nd_device_register.part.0+0x4d/0xc0 [libnvdimm]
[  192.933314]  __nvdimm_create+0x206/0x290 [libnvdimm]
[  192.936662]  cxl_nvdimm_probe+0x119/0x1d0 [cxl_pmem]
[  192.940245]  cxl_bus_probe+0x1a/0x60 [cxl_core]
[  192.943349]  really_probe+0xde/0x380

This patch also relies on the previous change where
devm_cxl_add_nvdimm_bridge() is called from drivers/cxl/pmem.c instead
of drivers/cxl/core.c to ensure the dependency of cxl_acpi on cxl_pmem.

1. Set probe_type of cxl_nvb to PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS to ensure the
   driver is probed synchronously when add_device() is called.
2. Add a check in __devm_cxl_add_nvdimm_bridge() to ensure that the
   cxl_nvb driver is attached during cxl_acpi_probe().
3. Take the cxl_root uport_dev lock and the cxl_nvb->dev lock in
   devm_cxl_add_nvdimm() before checking nvdimm_bus is valid.
4. Set cxl_nvdimm flag to CXL_NVD_F_INVALIDATED so cxl_nvdimm_probe()
   will exit with -EBUSY.

The removal of cxl_nvdimm devices should prevent any orphaned devices
from probing once the nvdimm_bus is gone.

[ dj: Fixed 0-day reported kdoc issue. ]
[ dj: Fix cxl_nvb reference leak on error. Gregory (kreview-0811365) ]

Suggested-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Fixes: 8fdcb1704f ("cxl/pmem: Add initial infrastructure for pmem support")
Tested-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@intel.com?>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260205001633.1813643-3-dave.jiang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
This commit is contained in:
Dave Jiang 2026-02-12 14:50:38 -07:00
parent e7e222ad73
commit 96a1fd0d84
3 changed files with 42 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -115,6 +115,15 @@ static void unregister_nvb(void *_cxl_nvb)
device_unregister(&cxl_nvb->dev);
}
static bool cxl_nvdimm_bridge_failed_attach(struct cxl_nvdimm_bridge *cxl_nvb)
{
struct device *dev = &cxl_nvb->dev;
guard(device)(dev);
/* If the device has no driver, then it failed to attach. */
return dev->driver == NULL;
}
struct cxl_nvdimm_bridge *__devm_cxl_add_nvdimm_bridge(struct device *host,
struct cxl_port *port)
{
@ -138,6 +147,11 @@ struct cxl_nvdimm_bridge *__devm_cxl_add_nvdimm_bridge(struct device *host,
if (rc)
goto err;
if (cxl_nvdimm_bridge_failed_attach(cxl_nvb)) {
unregister_nvb(cxl_nvb);
return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
}
rc = devm_add_action_or_reset(host, unregister_nvb, cxl_nvb);
if (rc)
return ERR_PTR(rc);
@ -248,6 +262,21 @@ int devm_cxl_add_nvdimm(struct device *host, struct cxl_port *port,
if (!cxl_nvb)
return -ENODEV;
/*
* Take the uport_dev lock to guard against race of nvdimm_bus object.
* cxl_acpi_probe() registers the nvdimm_bus and is done under the
* root port uport_dev lock.
*
* Take the cxl_nvb device lock to ensure that cxl_nvb driver is in a
* consistent state. And the driver registers nvdimm_bus.
*/
guard(device)(cxl_nvb->port->uport_dev);
guard(device)(&cxl_nvb->dev);
if (!cxl_nvb->nvdimm_bus) {
rc = -ENODEV;
goto err_alloc;
}
cxl_nvd = cxl_nvdimm_alloc(cxl_nvb, cxlmd);
if (IS_ERR(cxl_nvd)) {
rc = PTR_ERR(cxl_nvd);

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@ -574,11 +574,16 @@ struct cxl_nvdimm_bridge {
#define CXL_DEV_ID_LEN 19
enum {
CXL_NVD_F_INVALIDATED = 0,
};
struct cxl_nvdimm {
struct device dev;
struct cxl_memdev *cxlmd;
u8 dev_id[CXL_DEV_ID_LEN]; /* for nvdimm, string of 'serial' */
u64 dirty_shutdowns;
unsigned long flags;
};
struct cxl_pmem_region_mapping {

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@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
static __read_mostly DECLARE_BITMAP(exclusive_cmds, CXL_MEM_COMMAND_ID_MAX);
/**
* __devm_cxl_add_nvdimm_bridge() - add the root of a LIBNVDIMM topology
* devm_cxl_add_nvdimm_bridge() - add the root of a LIBNVDIMM topology
* @host: platform firmware root device
* @port: CXL port at the root of a CXL topology
*
@ -143,6 +143,9 @@ static int cxl_nvdimm_probe(struct device *dev)
struct nvdimm *nvdimm;
int rc;
if (test_bit(CXL_NVD_F_INVALIDATED, &cxl_nvd->flags))
return -EBUSY;
set_exclusive_cxl_commands(mds, exclusive_cmds);
rc = devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, clear_exclusive, mds);
if (rc)
@ -323,8 +326,10 @@ static int detach_nvdimm(struct device *dev, void *data)
scoped_guard(device, dev) {
if (dev->driver) {
cxl_nvd = to_cxl_nvdimm(dev);
if (cxl_nvd->cxlmd && cxl_nvd->cxlmd->cxl_nvb == data)
if (cxl_nvd->cxlmd && cxl_nvd->cxlmd->cxl_nvb == data) {
release = true;
set_bit(CXL_NVD_F_INVALIDATED, &cxl_nvd->flags);
}
}
}
if (release)
@ -367,6 +372,7 @@ static struct cxl_driver cxl_nvdimm_bridge_driver = {
.probe = cxl_nvdimm_bridge_probe,
.id = CXL_DEVICE_NVDIMM_BRIDGE,
.drv = {
.probe_type = PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS,
.suppress_bind_attrs = true,
},
};