Hello, On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, Florian Westphal wrote: > syzbot <syzbot+a46d6abf9d56b1365a72@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [ cc Julian and trimming cc list ] > > > syzkaller688027/4497 is trying to acquire lock: > > (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}, at: [<00000000bb14d7fb>] rtnl_lock+0x17/0x20 > > net/core/rtnetlink.c:74 > > > but task is already holding lock: > > IPVS: stopping backup sync thread 4495 ... > > (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}, at: [<00000000bb14d7fb>] rtnl_lock+0x17/0x20 > > net/core/rtnetlink.c:74 > > > > other info that might help us debug this: > > Possible unsafe locking scenario: > > > > CPU0 > > ---- > > lock(rtnl_mutex); > > lock(rtnl_mutex); > > > > *** DEADLOCK *** > > > > May be due to missing lock nesting notation > > Looks like this is real, commit e0b26cc997d57305b4097711e12e13992580ae34 > ("ipvs: call rtnl_lock early") added rtnl_lock when starting sync thread > but socket close invokes rtnl_lock too: I see, thanks! I'll have to move the locks into start_sync_thread and to split make_{send,receive}_sock to {make,setup}_{send,receive}_sock ... > > stack backtrace: > > rtnl_lock+0x17/0x20 net/core/rtnetlink.c:74 > > ip_mc_drop_socket+0x88/0x230 net/ipv4/igmp.c:2643 > > inet_release+0x4e/0x1c0 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:413 > > sock_release+0x8d/0x1e0 net/socket.c:595 > > start_sync_thread+0x2213/0x2b70 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_sync.c:1924 > > do_ip_vs_set_ctl+0x1139/0x1cc0 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c:2389 Regards -- Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lvs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html