3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Feras Daoud <ferasda@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 1c3098cdb05207e740715857df7b0998e372f527 ] This patch fixes Deadlock while executing ipoib_vlan_delete. The function takes the vlan_rwsem semaphore and calls unregister_netdevice. The later function calls ipoib_mcast_stop_thread that cause workqueue flush. When the queue has one of the ipoib_ib_dev_flush_xxx events, a deadlock occur because these events also tries to catch the same vlan_rwsem semaphore. To fix, unregister_netdevice should be called after releasing the semaphore. Fixes: cbbe1efa4972 ("IPoIB: Fix deadlock between ipoib_open() and child interface create") 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> 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_vlan.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_vlan.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_vlan.c @@ -187,7 +187,6 @@ int ipoib_vlan_delete(struct net_device list_for_each_entry_safe(priv, tpriv, &ppriv->child_intfs, list) { if (priv->pkey == pkey && priv->child_type == IPOIB_LEGACY_CHILD) { - unregister_netdevice(priv->dev); list_del(&priv->list); dev = priv->dev; break; @@ -195,6 +194,11 @@ int ipoib_vlan_delete(struct net_device } up_write(&ppriv->vlan_rwsem); + if (dev) { + ipoib_dbg(ppriv, "delete child vlan %s\n", dev->name); + unregister_netdevice(dev); + } + rtnl_unlock(); if (dev) {