This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled rxrpc: Restore removed timer deletion to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: rxrpc-restore-removed-timer-deletion.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 8728df81fb6b4447232e49dad46a39f7e8ae84fb Author: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Apr 13 11:16:25 2022 +0100 rxrpc: Restore removed timer deletion [ Upstream commit ee3b0826b4764f6c13ad6db67495c5a1c38e9025 ] A recent patch[1] from Eric Dumazet flipped the order in which the keepalive timer and the keepalive worker were cancelled in order to fix a syzbot reported issue[2]. Unfortunately, this enables the mirror image bug whereby the timer races with rxrpc_exit_net(), restarting the worker after it has been cancelled: CPU 1 CPU 2 =============== ===================== if (rxnet->live) <INTERRUPT> rxnet->live = false; cancel_work_sync(&rxnet->peer_keepalive_work); rxrpc_queue_work(&rxnet->peer_keepalive_work); del_timer_sync(&rxnet->peer_keepalive_timer); Fix this by restoring the removed del_timer_sync() so that we try to remove the timer twice. If the timer runs again, it should see ->live == false and not restart the worker. Fixes: 1946014ca3b1 ("rxrpc: fix a race in rxrpc_exit_net()") Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc: linux-afs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220404183439.3537837-1-eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx/ [1] Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=724378c4bb58f703b09a [2] Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/rxrpc/net_ns.c b/net/rxrpc/net_ns.c index f15d6942da45..cc7e30733feb 100644 --- a/net/rxrpc/net_ns.c +++ b/net/rxrpc/net_ns.c @@ -113,7 +113,9 @@ static __net_exit void rxrpc_exit_net(struct net *net) struct rxrpc_net *rxnet = rxrpc_net(net); rxnet->live = false; + del_timer_sync(&rxnet->peer_keepalive_timer); cancel_work_sync(&rxnet->peer_keepalive_work); + /* Remove the timer again as the worker may have restarted it. */ del_timer_sync(&rxnet->peer_keepalive_timer); rxrpc_destroy_all_calls(rxnet); rxrpc_destroy_all_connections(rxnet);