This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net: Write lock dev_base_lock without disabling bottom halves. to the 5.15-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: net-write-lock-dev_base_lock-without-disabling-botto.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 2634d7f1414aa76c55144cc4c8cecd30ed09c3af Author: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Nov 26 17:15:29 2021 +0100 net: Write lock dev_base_lock without disabling bottom halves. [ Upstream commit fd888e85fe6b661e78044dddfec0be5271afa626 ] The writer acquires dev_base_lock with disabled bottom halves. The reader can acquire dev_base_lock without disabling bottom halves because there is no writer in softirq context. On PREEMPT_RT the softirqs are preemptible and local_bh_disable() acts as a lock to ensure that resources, that are protected by disabling bottom halves, remain protected. This leads to a circular locking dependency if the lock acquired with disabled bottom halves (as in write_lock_bh()) and somewhere else with enabled bottom halves (as by read_lock() in netstat_show()) followed by disabling bottom halves (cxgb_get_stats() -> t4_wr_mbox_meat_timeout() -> spin_lock_bh()). This is the reverse locking order. All read_lock() invocation are from sysfs callback which are not invoked from softirq context. Therefore there is no need to disable bottom halves while acquiring a write lock. Acquire the write lock of dev_base_lock without disabling bottom halves. Reported-by: Pei Zhang <pezhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Luis Claudio R. Goncalves <lgoncalv@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index b9731b267d07..860fc6a98373 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -365,12 +365,12 @@ static void list_netdevice(struct net_device *dev) ASSERT_RTNL(); - write_lock_bh(&dev_base_lock); + write_lock(&dev_base_lock); list_add_tail_rcu(&dev->dev_list, &net->dev_base_head); netdev_name_node_add(net, dev->name_node); hlist_add_head_rcu(&dev->index_hlist, dev_index_hash(net, dev->ifindex)); - write_unlock_bh(&dev_base_lock); + write_unlock(&dev_base_lock); dev_base_seq_inc(net); } @@ -383,11 +383,11 @@ static void unlist_netdevice(struct net_device *dev) ASSERT_RTNL(); /* Unlink dev from the device chain */ - write_lock_bh(&dev_base_lock); + write_lock(&dev_base_lock); list_del_rcu(&dev->dev_list); netdev_name_node_del(dev->name_node); hlist_del_rcu(&dev->index_hlist); - write_unlock_bh(&dev_base_lock); + write_unlock(&dev_base_lock); dev_base_seq_inc(dev_net(dev)); } @@ -1266,15 +1266,15 @@ int dev_change_name(struct net_device *dev, const char *newname) netdev_adjacent_rename_links(dev, oldname); - write_lock_bh(&dev_base_lock); + write_lock(&dev_base_lock); netdev_name_node_del(dev->name_node); - write_unlock_bh(&dev_base_lock); + write_unlock(&dev_base_lock); synchronize_rcu(); - write_lock_bh(&dev_base_lock); + write_lock(&dev_base_lock); netdev_name_node_add(net, dev->name_node); - write_unlock_bh(&dev_base_lock); + write_unlock(&dev_base_lock); ret = call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_CHANGENAME, dev); ret = notifier_to_errno(ret); diff --git a/net/core/link_watch.c b/net/core/link_watch.c index 1a455847da54..9599afd0862d 100644 --- a/net/core/link_watch.c +++ b/net/core/link_watch.c @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ static void rfc2863_policy(struct net_device *dev) if (operstate == dev->operstate) return; - write_lock_bh(&dev_base_lock); + write_lock(&dev_base_lock); switch(dev->link_mode) { case IF_LINK_MODE_TESTING: @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ static void rfc2863_policy(struct net_device *dev) dev->operstate = operstate; - write_unlock_bh(&dev_base_lock); + write_unlock(&dev_base_lock); } diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c index 9c0e8ccf9bc5..8c85e93daa73 100644 --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -842,9 +842,9 @@ static void set_operstate(struct net_device *dev, unsigned char transition) } if (dev->operstate != operstate) { - write_lock_bh(&dev_base_lock); + write_lock(&dev_base_lock); dev->operstate = operstate; - write_unlock_bh(&dev_base_lock); + write_unlock(&dev_base_lock); netdev_state_change(dev); } } @@ -2781,11 +2781,11 @@ static int do_setlink(const struct sk_buff *skb, if (tb[IFLA_LINKMODE]) { unsigned char value = nla_get_u8(tb[IFLA_LINKMODE]); - write_lock_bh(&dev_base_lock); + write_lock(&dev_base_lock); if (dev->link_mode ^ value) status |= DO_SETLINK_NOTIFY; dev->link_mode = value; - write_unlock_bh(&dev_base_lock); + write_unlock(&dev_base_lock); } if (tb[IFLA_VFINFO_LIST]) { diff --git a/net/hsr/hsr_device.c b/net/hsr/hsr_device.c index 26c32407f029..ea7b96e296ef 100644 --- a/net/hsr/hsr_device.c +++ b/net/hsr/hsr_device.c @@ -30,13 +30,13 @@ static bool is_slave_up(struct net_device *dev) static void __hsr_set_operstate(struct net_device *dev, int transition) { - write_lock_bh(&dev_base_lock); + write_lock(&dev_base_lock); if (dev->operstate != transition) { dev->operstate = transition; - write_unlock_bh(&dev_base_lock); + write_unlock(&dev_base_lock); netdev_state_change(dev); } else { - write_unlock_bh(&dev_base_lock); + write_unlock(&dev_base_lock); } }