This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled genetlink: release cb_lock before requesting additional module to the 3.10-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: genetlink-release-cb_lock-before-requesting-additional-module.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 6883c1fc2e91010dc9bbb097da29ec9923a1e9f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:00:10 +0200 Subject: genetlink: release cb_lock before requesting additional module From: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit c74f2b2678f40b80265dd53556f1f778c8e1823f ] Requesting external module with cb_lock taken can result in the deadlock like showed below: [ 2458.111347] Showing all locks held in the system: [ 2458.111347] 1 lock held by NetworkManager/582: [ 2458.111347] #0: (cb_lock){++++++}, at: [<ffffffff8162bc79>] genl_rcv+0x19/0x40 [ 2458.111347] 1 lock held by modprobe/603: [ 2458.111347] #0: (cb_lock){++++++}, at: [<ffffffff8162baa5>] genl_lock_all+0x15/0x30 [ 2461.579457] SysRq : Show Blocked State [ 2461.580103] task PC stack pid father [ 2461.580103] NetworkManager D ffff880034b84500 4040 582 1 0x00000080 [ 2461.580103] ffff8800197ff720 0000000000000046 00000000001d5340 ffff8800197fffd8 [ 2461.580103] ffff8800197fffd8 00000000001d5340 ffff880019631700 7fffffffffffffff [ 2461.580103] ffff8800197ff880 ffff8800197ff878 ffff880019631700 ffff880019631700 [ 2461.580103] Call Trace: [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff817355f9>] schedule+0x29/0x70 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff81731ad1>] schedule_timeout+0x1c1/0x360 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff810e69eb>] ? mark_held_locks+0xbb/0x140 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff817377ac>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2c/0x50 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff810e6b6d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xfd/0x1c0 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff81736398>] wait_for_completion_killable+0xe8/0x170 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff810b7fa0>] ? wake_up_state+0x20/0x20 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff81095825>] call_usermodehelper_exec+0x1a5/0x210 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff817362ed>] ? wait_for_completion_killable+0x3d/0x170 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff81095cc3>] __request_module+0x1b3/0x370 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff810e6b6d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xfd/0x1c0 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff8162c5c9>] ctrl_getfamily+0x159/0x190 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff8162d8a4>] genl_family_rcv_msg+0x1f4/0x2e0 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff8162d990>] ? genl_family_rcv_msg+0x2e0/0x2e0 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff8162da1e>] genl_rcv_msg+0x8e/0xd0 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff8162b729>] netlink_rcv_skb+0xa9/0xc0 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff8162bc88>] genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff8162ad6d>] netlink_unicast+0xdd/0x190 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff8162b149>] netlink_sendmsg+0x329/0x750 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff815db849>] sock_sendmsg+0x99/0xd0 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff810bb58f>] ? local_clock+0x5f/0x70 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff810e96e8>] ? lock_release_non_nested+0x308/0x350 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff815dbc6e>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x39e/0x3b0 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff810565af>] ? kvm_clock_read+0x2f/0x50 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff810218b9>] ? sched_clock+0x9/0x10 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff810bb2bd>] ? sched_clock_local+0x1d/0x80 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff810bb448>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0xa8/0x100 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff810e33ad>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0x10 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff810bb58f>] ? local_clock+0x5f/0x70 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff810e3f7f>] ? lock_release_holdtime.part.28+0xf/0x1a0 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff8120fec9>] ? fget_light+0xf9/0x510 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff8120fe0c>] ? fget_light+0x3c/0x510 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff815dd1d2>] __sys_sendmsg+0x42/0x80 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff815dd222>] SyS_sendmsg+0x12/0x20 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff81741ad9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 2461.580103] modprobe D ffff88000f2c8000 4632 603 602 0x00000080 [ 2461.580103] ffff88000f04fba8 0000000000000046 00000000001d5340 ffff88000f04ffd8 [ 2461.580103] ffff88000f04ffd8 00000000001d5340 ffff8800377d4500 ffff8800377d4500 [ 2461.580103] ffffffff81d0b260 ffffffff81d0b268 ffffffff00000000 ffffffff81d0b2b0 [ 2461.580103] Call Trace: [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff817355f9>] schedule+0x29/0x70 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff81736d4d>] rwsem_down_write_failed+0xed/0x1a0 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff810bb200>] ? update_cpu_load_active+0x10/0xb0 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff8137b473>] call_rwsem_down_write_failed+0x13/0x20 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff8173492d>] ? down_write+0x9d/0xb2 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff8162baa5>] ? genl_lock_all+0x15/0x30 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff8162baa5>] genl_lock_all+0x15/0x30 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff8162cbb3>] genl_register_family+0x53/0x1f0 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffffa01dc000>] ? 0xffffffffa01dbfff [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff8162d650>] genl_register_family_with_ops+0x20/0x80 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffffa01dc000>] ? 0xffffffffa01dbfff [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffffa017fe84>] nl80211_init+0x24/0xf0 [cfg80211] [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffffa01dc000>] ? 0xffffffffa01dbfff [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffffa01dc043>] cfg80211_init+0x43/0xdb [cfg80211] [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff810020fa>] do_one_initcall+0xfa/0x1b0 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff8105cb93>] ? set_memory_nx+0x43/0x50 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff810f75af>] load_module+0x1c6f/0x27f0 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff810f2c90>] ? store_uevent+0x40/0x40 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff810f82c6>] SyS_finit_module+0x86/0xb0 [ 2461.580103] [<ffffffff81741ad9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [ 2461.580103] Sched Debug Version: v0.10, 3.11.0-0.rc1.git4.1.fc20.x86_64 #1 Problem start to happen after adding net-pf-16-proto-16-family-nl80211 alias name to cfg80211 module by below commit (though that commit itself is perfectly fine): commit fb4e156886ce6e8309e912d8b370d192330d19d3 Author: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Apr 28 16:22:06 2013 -0700 nl80211: Add generic netlink module alias for cfg80211/nl80211 Reported-and-tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netlink/genetlink.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c +++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c @@ -877,8 +877,10 @@ static int ctrl_getfamily(struct sk_buff #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES if (res == NULL) { genl_unlock(); + up_read(&cb_lock); request_module("net-pf-%d-proto-%d-family-%s", PF_NETLINK, NETLINK_GENERIC, name); + down_read(&cb_lock); genl_lock(); res = genl_family_find_byname(name); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/bluetooth-ath3k-don-t-use-stack-memory-for-dma.patch queue-3.10/genetlink-release-cb_lock-before-requesting-additional-module.patch queue-3.10/mac80211-fix-monitor-interface-suspend-crash-regression.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html