This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
iavf: fix potential deadlock on allocation failure
to the 6.1-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:
iavf-fix-potential-deadlock-on-allocation-failure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit e9b721e539ac110ea6b6f6e28d8492f58da0ccc0
Author: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Jul 10 13:41:27 2023 -0700
iavf: fix potential deadlock on allocation failure
[ Upstream commit a2f054c10bef0b54600ec9cb776508443e941343 ]
In iavf_adminq_task(), if kzalloc() fails to allocate the event.msg_buf,
the function will exit without releasing the adapter->crit_lock.
This is unlikely, but if it happens, the next access to that mutex will
deadlock.
Fix this by moving the unlock to the end of the function, and adding a new
label to allow jumping to the unlock portion of the function exit flow.
Fixes: fc2e6b3b132a ("iavf: Rework mutexes for better synchronisation")
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Rafal Romanowski <rafal.romanowski@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_main.c
index c1f91c55e1ca7..650a969a69a14 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/iavf/iavf_main.c
@@ -3300,7 +3300,7 @@ static void iavf_adminq_task(struct work_struct *work)
event.buf_len = IAVF_MAX_AQ_BUF_SIZE;
event.msg_buf = kzalloc(event.buf_len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!event.msg_buf)
- goto out;
+ goto unlock;
do {
ret = iavf_clean_arq_element(hw, &event, &pending);
@@ -3315,7 +3315,6 @@ static void iavf_adminq_task(struct work_struct *work)
if (pending != 0)
memset(event.msg_buf, 0, IAVF_MAX_AQ_BUF_SIZE);
} while (pending);
- mutex_unlock(&adapter->crit_lock);
if (iavf_is_reset_in_progress(adapter))
goto freedom;
@@ -3359,6 +3358,8 @@ static void iavf_adminq_task(struct work_struct *work)
freedom:
kfree(event.msg_buf);
+unlock:
+ mutex_unlock(&adapter->crit_lock);
out:
/* re-enable Admin queue interrupt cause */
iavf_misc_irq_enable(adapter);
