In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Revert "PCI/IOV: Add PCI rescan-remove locking when enabling/disabling SR-IOV"

This reverts commit 05703271c3cd ("PCI/IOV: Add PCI rescan-remove locking
when enabling/disabling SR-IOV"), which causes a deadlock by recursively
taking pci_rescan_remove_lock when sriov_del_vfs() is called as part of
pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device(). For example with the following sequence
of commands:

  $ echo <NUM> > /sys/bus/pci/devices/<pf>/sriov_numvfs
  $ echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/<pf>/remove

A trimmed trace of the deadlock on a mlx5 device is as below:

  zsh/5715 is trying to acquire lock:
  000002597926ef50 (pci_rescan_remove_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: sriov_disable+0x34/0x140

  but task is already holding lock:
  000002597926ef50 (pci_rescan_remove_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device_locked+0x24/0x80
  ...
  Call Trace:
   [<00000259778c4f90>] dump_stack_lvl+0xc0/0x110
   [<00000259779c844e>] print_deadlock_bug+0x31e/0x330
   [<00000259779c1908>] __lock_acquire+0x16c8/0x32f0
   [<00000259779bffac>] lock_acquire+0x14c/0x350
   [<00000259789643a6>] __mutex_lock_common+0xe6/0x1520
   [<000002597896413c>] mutex_lock_nested+0x3c/0x50
   [<00000259784a07e4>] sriov_disable+0x34/0x140
   [<00000258f7d6dd80>] mlx5_sriov_disable+0x50/0x80 [mlx5_core]
   [<00000258f7d5745e>] remove_one+0x5e/0xf0 [mlx5_core]
   [<00000259784857fc>] pci_device_remove+0x3c/0xa0
   [<000002597851012e>] device_release_driver_internal+0x18e/0x280
   [<000002597847ae22>] pci_stop_bus_device+0x82/0xa0
   [<000002597847afce>] pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device_locked+0x5e/0x80
   [<00000259784972c2>] remove_store+0x72/0x90
   [<0000025977e6661a>] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x15a/0x200
   [<0000025977d7241c>] vfs_write+0x24c/0x300
   [<0000025977d72696>] ksys_write+0x86/0x110
   [<000002597895b61c>] __do_syscall+0x14c/0x400
   [<000002597896e0ee>] system_call+0x6e/0x90

This alone is not a complete fix as it restores the issue the cited commit
tried to solve. A new fix will be provided as a follow on.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0de341b2365bad430aade0853fe09c2cbe468f59

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2fa119c0e5e528453ebae9e70740e8d2d8c0ed5a

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40f67686a5002c0c322fac918406bbc8d9c2ec2f

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58677783c89681871077f50a7042b0c6380c4fd8

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/639265296fe6ee21b6f00e00ee2bab65f3b07252

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/83651d37474c762920e345a3a0828f975ca4d732

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d47f27e145f8bd13f3c230da5e3af29225b4a2f7

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f61cdd7e9b67bb8961b0a81bf294b78343e5db05