From: Bo Wu <wubo40@xxxxxxxxxx> In iscsi_if_rx func, after receiving one request through iscsi_if_recv_msg func, iscsi_if_send_reply will be called to try to reply the request in do-loop. If the return of iscsi_if_send_reply func return -EAGAIN all the time, one deadloop will occur. For example, a client only send msg without calling recvmsg func, then it will result in the watchdog soft lockup. The details are given as follows, Details of the special case which can cause deadloop: sock_fd = socket(AF_NETLINK, SOCK_RAW, NETLINK_ISCSI); retval = bind(sock_fd, (struct sock addr*) & src_addr, sizeof(src_addr); while (1) { state_msg = sendmsg(sock_fd, &msg, 0); //Note: recvmsg(sock_fd, &msg, 0) is not processed here. } close(sock_fd); watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#7 stuck for 22s! [netlink_test:253305] Sample time: 4000897528 ns(HZ: 250) Sample stat: curr: user: 675503481560, nice: 321724050, sys: 448689506750, idle: 4654054240530, iowait: 40885550700, irq: 14161174020, softirq: 8104324140, st: 0 deta: user: 0, nice: 0, sys: 3998210100, idle: 0, iowait: 0, irq: 1547170, softirq: 242870, st: 0 Sample softirq: TIMER: 992 SCHED: 8 Sample irqstat: irq 2: delta 1003, curr: 3103802, arch_timer CPU: 7 PID: 253305 Comm: netlink_test Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 pstate: 40400005 (nZcv daif +PAN -UAO) pc : __alloc_skb+0x104/0x1b0 lr : __alloc_skb+0x9c/0x1b0 sp : ffff000033603a30 x29: ffff000033603a30 x28: 00000000000002dd x27: ffff800b34ced810 x26: ffff800ba7569f00 x25: 00000000ffffffff x24: 0000000000000000 x23: ffff800f7c43f600 x22: 0000000000480020 x21: ffff0000091d9000 x20: ffff800b34eff200 x19: ffff800ba7569f00 x18: 0000000000000000 x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000000 x14: 0001000101000100 x13: 0000000101010000 x12: 0101000001010100 x11: 0001010101010001 x10: 00000000000002dd x9 : ffff000033603d58 x8 : ffff800b34eff400 x7 : ffff800ba7569200 x6 : ffff800b34eff400 x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 00000000ffffffff x3 : 0000000000000000 x2 : 0000000000000001 x1 : ffff800b34eff2c0 x0 : 0000000000000300 Call trace: __alloc_skb+0x104/0x1b0 iscsi_if_rx+0x144/0x12bc [scsi_transport_iscsi] netlink_unicast+0x1e0/0x258 netlink_sendmsg+0x310/0x378 sock_sendmsg+0x4c/0x70 sock_write_iter+0x90/0xf0 __vfs_write+0x11c/0x190 vfs_write+0xac/0x1c0 ksys_write+0x6c/0xd8 __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x30 el0_svc_common+0x78/0x130 el0_svc_handler+0x38/0x78 el0_svc+0x8/0xc Here, we add one limit of retry times in do-loop to avoid the deadloop. Signed-off-by: Bo Wu <wubo40@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Zhiqiang Liu <liuzhiqiang26@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Lee Duncan <LDuncan@xxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Ulrich Windl <Ulrich.Windl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- V3:replace the error with warning as suggested by Ulrich V2:add some debug kernel message as suggested by Lee Duncan Thanks, Bo Wu drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c index 417b868d8735..ed8d9709b9b9 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c @@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ #define ISCSI_TRANSPORT_VERSION "2.0-870" +#define ISCSI_SEND_MAX_ALLOWED 10 + #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS #include <trace/events/iscsi.h> @@ -3682,6 +3684,7 @@ iscsi_if_rx(struct sk_buff *skb) struct nlmsghdr *nlh; struct iscsi_uevent *ev; uint32_t group; + int retries = ISCSI_SEND_MAX_ALLOWED; nlh = nlmsg_hdr(skb); if (nlh->nlmsg_len < sizeof(*nlh) + sizeof(*ev) || @@ -3712,6 +3715,10 @@ iscsi_if_rx(struct sk_buff *skb) break; err = iscsi_if_send_reply(portid, nlh->nlmsg_type, ev, sizeof(*ev)); + if (err == -EAGAIN && --retries < 0) { + printk(KERN_WARNING "Send reply failed, error %d\n", err); + break; + } } while (err < 0 && err != -ECONNREFUSED && err != -ESRCH); skb_pull(skb, rlen); } -- 1.8.3.1