This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled IB/ipoib: Replace list_del of the neigh->list with list_del_init 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: ib-ipoib-replace-list_del-of-the-neigh-list-with-list_del_init.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 foo@baz Thu Oct 5 10:58:04 CEST 2017 From: Feras Daoud <ferasda@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2016 14:47:27 +0200 Subject: IB/ipoib: Replace list_del of the neigh->list with list_del_init From: Feras Daoud <ferasda@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit c586071d1dc8227a7182179b8e50ee92cc43f6d2 ] In order to resolve a situation where a few process delete the same list element in sequence and cause panic, list_del is replaced with list_del_init. In this case if the first process that calls list_del releases the lock before acquiring it again, other processes who can acquire the lock will call list_del_init. Fixes: b63b70d87741 ("IPoIB: Use a private hash table for path lookup") Signed-off-by: Feras Daoud <ferasda@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Erez Shitrit <erezsh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Alex Vesker <valex@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Yuval Shaia <yuval.shaia@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c @@ -958,7 +958,7 @@ static void __ipoib_reap_neigh(struct ip rcu_dereference_protected(neigh->hnext, lockdep_is_held(&priv->lock))); /* remove from path/mc list */ - list_del(&neigh->list); + list_del_init(&neigh->list); call_rcu(&neigh->rcu, ipoib_neigh_reclaim); } else { np = &neigh->hnext; @@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@ void ipoib_neigh_free(struct ipoib_neigh rcu_dereference_protected(neigh->hnext, lockdep_is_held(&priv->lock))); /* remove from parent list */ - list_del(&neigh->list); + list_del_init(&neigh->list); call_rcu(&neigh->rcu, ipoib_neigh_reclaim); return; } else { @@ -1206,7 +1206,7 @@ void ipoib_del_neighs_by_gid(struct net_ rcu_dereference_protected(neigh->hnext, lockdep_is_held(&priv->lock))); /* remove from parent list */ - list_del(&neigh->list); + list_del_init(&neigh->list); call_rcu(&neigh->rcu, ipoib_neigh_reclaim); } else { np = &neigh->hnext; @@ -1248,7 +1248,7 @@ static void ipoib_flush_neighs(struct ip rcu_dereference_protected(neigh->hnext, lockdep_is_held(&priv->lock))); /* remove from path/mc list */ - list_del(&neigh->list); + list_del_init(&neigh->list); call_rcu(&neigh->rcu, ipoib_neigh_reclaim); } } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ferasda@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/ib-ipoib-replace-list_del-of-the-neigh-list-with-list_del_init.patch queue-3.18/ib-ipoib-rtnl_unlock-can-not-come-after-free_netdev.patch queue-3.18/ib-ipoib-fix-deadlock-over-vlan_mutex.patch