This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv6: fix possible deadlock in ip6_fl_purge / ip6_fl_gc to the 3.18-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: ipv6-fix-possible-deadlock-in-ip6_fl_purge-ip6_fl_gc.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4762fb980465463734f02c67c67f40beb8903f73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Stancek <jstancek@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:06:23 +0100 Subject: ipv6: fix possible deadlock in ip6_fl_purge / ip6_fl_gc From: Jan Stancek <jstancek@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 4762fb980465463734f02c67c67f40beb8903f73 upstream. Use spin_lock_bh in ip6_fl_purge() to prevent following potentially deadlock scenario between ip6_fl_purge() and ip6_fl_gc() timer. ================================= [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] 3.19.0 #1 Not tainted --------------------------------- inconsistent {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} -> {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} usage. swapper/5/0 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE1:SE0] takes: (ip6_fl_lock){+.?...}, at: [<ffffffff8171155d>] ip6_fl_gc+0x2d/0x180 {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} state was registered at: [<ffffffff810ee9a0>] __lock_acquire+0x4a0/0x10b0 [<ffffffff810efd54>] lock_acquire+0xc4/0x2b0 [<ffffffff81751d2d>] _raw_spin_lock+0x3d/0x80 [<ffffffff81711798>] ip6_flowlabel_net_exit+0x28/0x110 [<ffffffff815f9759>] ops_exit_list.isra.1+0x39/0x60 [<ffffffff815fa320>] cleanup_net+0x100/0x1e0 [<ffffffff810ad80a>] process_one_work+0x20a/0x830 [<ffffffff810adf4b>] worker_thread+0x11b/0x460 [<ffffffff810b42f4>] kthread+0x104/0x120 [<ffffffff81752bfc>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 irq event stamp: 84640 hardirqs last enabled at (84640): [<ffffffff81752080>] _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x30/0x50 hardirqs last disabled at (84639): [<ffffffff81751eff>] _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x1f/0x80 softirqs last enabled at (84628): [<ffffffff81091ad1>] _local_bh_enable+0x21/0x50 softirqs last disabled at (84629): [<ffffffff81093b7d>] irq_exit+0x12d/0x150 other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 ---- lock(ip6_fl_lock); <Interrupt> lock(ip6_fl_lock); *** DEADLOCK *** Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c +++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_flowlabel.c @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ static void __net_exit ip6_fl_purge(stru { int i; - spin_lock(&ip6_fl_lock); + spin_lock_bh(&ip6_fl_lock); for (i = 0; i <= FL_HASH_MASK; i++) { struct ip6_flowlabel *fl; struct ip6_flowlabel __rcu **flp; @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ static void __net_exit ip6_fl_purge(stru flp = &fl->next; } } - spin_unlock(&ip6_fl_lock); + spin_unlock_bh(&ip6_fl_lock); } static struct ip6_flowlabel *fl_intern(struct net *net, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jstancek@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/ipv6-fix-possible-deadlock-in-ip6_fl_purge-ip6_fl_gc.patch