This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net/mlx5: Fix health work queue spin lock to IRQ safe
to the 4.13-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:
net-mlx5-fix-health-work-queue-spin-lock-to-irq-safe.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.13 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 Wed Nov 15 17:25:34 CET 2017
From: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:14:29 +0300
Subject: net/mlx5: Fix health work queue spin lock to IRQ safe
From: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 6377ed0bbae6fa28853e1679d068a9106c8a8908 ]
spin_lock/unlock of health->wq_lock should be IRQ safe.
It was changed to spin_lock_irqsave since adding commit 0179720d6be2
("net/mlx5: Introduce trigger_health_work function") which uses
spin_lock from asynchronous event (IRQ) context.
Thus, all spin_lock/unlock of health->wq_lock should have been moved
to IRQ safe mode.
However, one occurrence on new code using this lock missed that
change, resulting in possible deadlock:
kernel: Possible unsafe locking scenario:
kernel: CPU0
kernel: ----
kernel: lock(&(&health->wq_lock)->rlock);
kernel: <Interrupt>
kernel: lock(&(&health->wq_lock)->rlock);
kernel: #012 *** DEADLOCK ***
Fixes: 2a0165a034ac ("net/mlx5: Cancel delayed recovery work when unloading the driver")
Signed-off-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/health.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/health.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/health.c
@@ -356,10 +356,11 @@ void mlx5_drain_health_wq(struct mlx5_co
void mlx5_drain_health_recovery(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev)
{
struct mlx5_core_health *health = &dev->priv.health;
+ unsigned long flags;
- spin_lock(&health->wq_lock);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&health->wq_lock, flags);
set_bit(MLX5_DROP_NEW_RECOVERY_WORK, &health->flags);
- spin_unlock(&health->wq_lock);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&health->wq_lock, flags);
cancel_delayed_work_sync(&dev->priv.health.recover_work);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from moshe@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.13/net-mlx5-fix-health-work-queue-spin-lock-to-irq-safe.patch