On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 02:29:57AM +0000, kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > vmbus_process_offer() mustn't call channel->sc_creation_callback() > directly for sub-channels, because sc_creation_callback() -> > vmbus_open() may never get the host's response to the > OPEN_CHANNEL message (the host may rescind a channel at any time, > e.g. in the case of hot removing a NIC), and vmbus_onoffer_rescind() > may not wake up the vmbus_open() as it's blocked due to a non-zero > vmbus_connection.offer_in_progress, and finally we have a deadlock. > > The above is also true for primary channels, if the related device > drivers use sync probing mode by default. > > And, usually the handling of primary channels and sub-channels can > depend on each other, so we should offload them to different > workqueues to avoid possible deadlock, e.g. in sync-probing mode, > NIC1's netvsc_subchan_work() can race with NIC2's netvsc_probe() -> > rtnl_lock(), and causes deadlock: the former gets the rtnl_lock > and waits for all the sub-channels to appear, but the latter > can't get the rtnl_lock and this blocks the handling of sub-channels. > > The patch can fix the multiple-NIC deadlock described above for > v3.x kernels (e.g. RHEL 7.x) which don't support async-probing > of devices, and v4.4, v4.9, v4.14 and v4.18 which support async-probing > but don't enable async-probing for Hyper-V drivers (yet). > > The patch can also fix the hang issue in sub-channel's handling described > above for all versions of kernels, including v4.19 and v4.20-rc3. > > So the patch should be applied to all the existing kernels. > > Fixes: 8195b1396ec8 ("hv_netvsc: fix deadlock on hotplug") > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c | 188 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------- > drivers/hv/connection.c | 24 ++++- > drivers/hv/hyperv_vmbus.h | 7 ++ > include/linux/hyperv.h | 7 ++ > 4 files changed, 161 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-) As Sasha pointed out, this patch does not even apply :( _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel