Re: [PATCH v6 3/4] RDMA/Core: add RDMA_NLDEV_CMD_NEWLINK/DELLINK support

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On 12/6/2018 1:26 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 09:44:11AM -0600, Steve Wise wrote:
>> Commenting on my own submission:
>>
>> On 12/5/2018 9:14 AM, Steve Wise wrote:
>>> Add support for new LINK messages to allow adding and deleting rdma
>>> interfaces.  This will be used initially for soft rdma drivers which
>>> instantiate device instances dynamically by the admin specifying a
>>> netdev device to use.  The rdma_rxe module will be the first user of
>>> these messages.
>>>
>>> The design is modeled after RTNL_NEWLINK/DELLINK:  rdma drivers
>>> register with the rdma core if they provide link add/delete functions.
>>> Each driver registers with a unique "type" string, that is used to
>>> dispatch messages coming from user space.  A new RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR
>>> is defined for the "type" string.  User mode will pass 3 attributes
>>> in a NEWLINK message: RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_DEV_NAME for the desired rdma
>>> device name to be created, RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_LINK_TYPE for the "type"
>>> of link being added, and RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_NDEV_NAME for the net_device
>>> interface to use for this link.  The DELLINK message will contain the
>>> RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_DEV_INDEX of the device to delete.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>  drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c  | 134 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  include/rdma/ib_verbs.h          |   2 +
>>>  include/rdma/rdma_netlink.h      |  13 ++++
>>>  include/uapi/rdma/rdma_netlink.h |  11 +++-
>>>  4 files changed, 158 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c
>>> index 9abbadb9e366..b6d97c592074 100644
>>> +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c
>>> @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
>>>  #include <linux/module.h>
>>>  #include <linux/pid.h>
>>>  #include <linux/pid_namespace.h>
>>> +#include <linux/mutex.h>
>>>  #include <net/netlink.h>
>>>  #include <rdma/rdma_cm.h>
>>>  #include <rdma/rdma_netlink.h>
>>> @@ -107,6 +108,8 @@
>>>  	[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_DRIVER_U32]		= { .type = NLA_U32 },
>>>  	[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_DRIVER_S64]		= { .type = NLA_S64 },
>>>  	[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_DRIVER_U64]		= { .type = NLA_U64 },
>>> +	[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_LINK_TYPE]		= { .type = NLA_NUL_STRING,
>>> +				    .len = RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_ENTRY_STRLEN },
>>>  };
>>>  
>>>  static int put_driver_name_print_type(struct sk_buff *msg, const char *name,
>>> @@ -1104,6 +1107,129 @@ static int nldev_res_get_pd_dumpit(struct sk_buff *skb,
>>>  	return res_get_common_dumpit(skb, cb, RDMA_RESTRACK_PD);
>>>  }
>>>  
>>> +static LIST_HEAD(link_ops);
>>> +static DECLARE_RWSEM(link_ops_rwsem);
>>> +
>>> +static const struct rdma_link_ops *link_ops_get(const char *type)
>>> +{
>>> +	const struct rdma_link_ops *ops;
>>> +
>>> +	list_for_each_entry(ops, &link_ops, list) {
>>> +		if (!strcmp(ops->type, type))
>>> +			goto out;
>>> +	}
>>> +	ops = NULL;
>>> +out:
>>> +	return ops;
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +void rdma_link_register(struct rdma_link_ops *ops)
>>> +{
>>> +	down_write(&link_ops_rwsem);
>>> +	if (link_ops_get(ops->type)) {
>>> +		WARN_ONCE("Duplicate rdma_link_ops! %s\n", ops->type);
>>> +		goto out;
>>> +	}
>>> +	list_add(&ops->list, &link_ops);
>>> +out:
>>> +	up_write(&link_ops_rwsem);
>>> +}
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(rdma_link_register);
>>> +
>>> +void rdma_link_unregister(struct rdma_link_ops *ops)
>>> +{
>>> +	down_write(&link_ops_rwsem);
>>> +	list_del(&ops->list);
>>> +	up_write(&link_ops_rwsem);
>>> +}
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(rdma_link_unregister);
>>> +
>>> +static int nldev_newlink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
>>> +			  struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
>>> +{
>>> +	struct nlattr *tb[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_MAX];
>>> +	char ibdev_name[IB_DEVICE_NAME_MAX];
>>> +	const struct rdma_link_ops *ops;
>>> +	struct ib_device *device;
>>> +	char ndev_name[IFNAMSIZ];
>>> +	char type[IFNAMSIZ];
>>> +	int err;
>>> +
>>> +	err = nlmsg_parse(nlh, 0, tb, RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_MAX - 1,
>>> +			  nldev_policy, extack);
>>> +	if (err || !tb[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_DEV_NAME] ||
>>> +	    !tb[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_LINK_TYPE] || !tb[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_NDEV_NAME])
>>> +		return -EINVAL;
>>> +
>>> +	nla_strlcpy(ibdev_name, tb[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_DEV_NAME],
>>> +		    sizeof(ibdev_name));
>>> +	if (strchr(ibdev_name, '%'))
>>> +		return -EINVAL;
>>> +
>>> +	nla_strlcpy(type, tb[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_LINK_TYPE], sizeof(type));
>>> +	nla_strlcpy(ndev_name, tb[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_NDEV_NAME],
>>> +		    sizeof(ndev_name));
>>> +
>>> +	down_read(&link_ops_rwsem);
>>> +	ops = link_ops_get(type);
>>> +#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
>>> +	if (!ops) {
>>> +		up_read(&link_ops_rwsem);
>>> +		request_module("rdma-link-%s", type);
>>> +		down_read(&link_ops_rwsem);
>>> +		ops = link_ops_get(type);
>>> +	}
>>> +#endif
>>> +	if (ops) {
>>> +		device = ops->newlink(ibdev_name, ndev_name);
>>> +		if (IS_ERR(device))
>>> +			err = PTR_ERR(device);
>>> +		else
>>> +			device->link_ops = ops;
>>> +	} else {
>>> +		err = -ENODEV;
>>> +	}
>>> +	up_read(&link_ops_rwsem);
>>> +
>>> +	return err;
>>> +}
>>> +
>>> +static int nldev_dellink(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
>>> +			  struct netlink_ext_ack *extack)
>>> +{
>>> +	struct nlattr *tb[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_MAX];
>>> +	const struct rdma_link_ops *ops;
>>> +	struct device *dma_device;
>>> +	struct ib_device *device;
>>> +	u32 index;
>>> +	int err;
>>> +
>>> +	err = nlmsg_parse(nlh, 0, tb, RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_MAX - 1,
>>> +			  nldev_policy, extack);
>>> +	if (err || !tb[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_DEV_INDEX])
>>> +		return -EINVAL;
>>> +
>>> +	index = nla_get_u32(tb[RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_DEV_INDEX]);
>>> +	device = ib_device_get_by_index(index);
>>> +	if (!device)
>>> +		return -EINVAL;
>>> +
>>> +	ops = device->link_ops;
>>> +
>>> +	/*
>>> +	 * Deref the ib_device before deleting it.  Otherwise we
>>> +	 * deadlock unregistering the device.  Hold a ref on the
>>> +	 * underlying dma_device though to keep the memory around
>>> +	 * until we're done.
>>> +	 */
>>> +	dma_device = get_device(device->dma_device);
>>> +	ib_device_put(device);
>>> +	err = ops ? ops->dellink(device) : -ENODEV;
>>> +	put_device(dma_device);
> What is the weirndness with dma_device? It should just be device

Do you mean ibdev->dev?


>> There is still a problem with the above code.  If thread 1 is running
>> this code and gets up to just after ib_device_put() but before calling
>> ops->dellink, and then thread2 runs the rmmod code of rxe, thread 2 can
>> remove the device and complete the module unload.
> Yes.. You can't use a lot of  the ib device outside the
> ib_device_get_by_index/ib_device_put critical region.
>
> The driver, or perhaps the core code, has to be the one to unput it,
> and the unput has to be done under proper locking to resolve the race.

We could define that the link_ops dellink function must do the final
ib_device_put().  That would work...






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