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authorDexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>2018-08-30 05:42:13 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-08-31 23:07:54 -0700
commite04e7a7bbd4bbabef4e1a58367e5fc9b2edc3b10 (patch)
treec9992f91f0762c8cd4eba5599d963be1e61aa1d3 /drivers
parent9ad716b95fd6c6be46a4f2d5936e514b5bcd744d (diff)
downloadlinux-e04e7a7bbd4bbabef4e1a58367e5fc9b2edc3b10.tar.bz2
hv_netvsc: Fix a deadlock by getting rtnl lock earlier in netvsc_probe()
This patch fixes the race between netvsc_probe() and rndis_set_subchannel(), which can cause a deadlock. These are the related 3 paths which show the deadlock: path #1: Workqueue: hv_vmbus_con vmbus_onmessage_work [hv_vmbus] Call Trace: schedule schedule_preempt_disabled __mutex_lock __device_attach bus_probe_device device_add vmbus_device_register vmbus_onoffer vmbus_onmessage_work process_one_work worker_thread kthread ret_from_fork path #2: schedule schedule_preempt_disabled __mutex_lock netvsc_probe vmbus_probe really_probe __driver_attach bus_for_each_dev driver_attach_async async_run_entry_fn process_one_work worker_thread kthread ret_from_fork path #3: Workqueue: events netvsc_subchan_work [hv_netvsc] Call Trace: schedule rndis_set_subchannel netvsc_subchan_work process_one_work worker_thread kthread ret_from_fork Before path #1 finishes, path #2 can start to run, because just before the "bus_probe_device(dev);" in device_add() in path #1, there is a line "object_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);", so systemd-udevd can immediately try to load hv_netvsc and hence path #2 can start to run. Next, path #2 offloads the subchannal's initialization to a workqueue, i.e. path #3, so we can end up in a deadlock situation like this: Path #2 gets the device lock, and is trying to get the rtnl lock; Path #3 gets the rtnl lock and is waiting for all the subchannel messages to be processed; Path #1 is trying to get the device lock, but since #2 is not releasing the device lock, path #1 has to sleep; since the VMBus messages are processed one by one, this means the sub-channel messages can't be procedded, so #3 has to sleep with the rtnl lock held, and finally #2 has to sleep... Now all the 3 paths are sleeping and we hit the deadlock. With the patch, we can make sure #2 gets both the device lock and the rtnl lock together, gets its job done, and releases the locks, so #1 and #3 will not be blocked for ever. Fixes: 8195b1396ec8 ("hv_netvsc: fix deadlock on hotplug") Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com> Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
index 1121a1ec407c..70921bbe0e28 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -2206,6 +2206,16 @@ static int netvsc_probe(struct hv_device *dev,
memcpy(net->dev_addr, device_info.mac_adr, ETH_ALEN);
+ /* We must get rtnl lock before scheduling nvdev->subchan_work,
+ * otherwise netvsc_subchan_work() can get rtnl lock first and wait
+ * all subchannels to show up, but that may not happen because
+ * netvsc_probe() can't get rtnl lock and as a result vmbus_onoffer()
+ * -> ... -> device_add() -> ... -> __device_attach() can't get
+ * the device lock, so all the subchannels can't be processed --
+ * finally netvsc_subchan_work() hangs for ever.
+ */
+ rtnl_lock();
+
if (nvdev->num_chn > 1)
schedule_work(&nvdev->subchan_work);
@@ -2224,7 +2234,6 @@ static int netvsc_probe(struct hv_device *dev,
else
net->max_mtu = ETH_DATA_LEN;
- rtnl_lock();
ret = register_netdevice(net);
if (ret != 0) {
pr_err("Unable to register netdev.\n");