This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a race condition when unregistering a device
to the 3.14-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:
drivers-hv-vmbus-fix-a-race-condition-when-unregistering-a-device.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 04a258c162a85c0f4ae56be67634dc43c9a4fa9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 13:40:11 +0100
Subject: Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a race condition when unregistering a device
From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 04a258c162a85c0f4ae56be67634dc43c9a4fa9b upstream.
When build with Debug the following crash is sometimes observed:
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff812b9600>] string+0x40/0x100
[<ffffffff812bb038>] vsnprintf+0x218/0x5e0
[<ffffffff810baf7d>] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0x10
[<ffffffff812bb4c1>] vscnprintf+0x11/0x30
[<ffffffff8107a2f0>] vprintk+0xd0/0x5c0
[<ffffffffa0051ea0>] ? vmbus_process_rescind_offer+0x0/0x110 [hv_vmbus]
[<ffffffff8155c71c>] printk+0x41/0x45
[<ffffffffa004ebac>] vmbus_device_unregister+0x2c/0x40 [hv_vmbus]
[<ffffffffa0051ecb>] vmbus_process_rescind_offer+0x2b/0x110 [hv_vmbus]
...
This happens due to the following race: between 'if (channel->device_obj)' check
in vmbus_process_rescind_offer() and pr_debug() in vmbus_device_unregister() the
device can disappear. Fix the issue by taking an additional reference to the
device before proceeding to vmbus_device_unregister().
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c
+++ b/drivers/hv/channel_mgmt.c
@@ -202,9 +202,16 @@ static void vmbus_process_rescind_offer(
unsigned long flags;
struct vmbus_channel *primary_channel;
struct vmbus_channel_relid_released msg;
+ struct device *dev;
+
+ if (channel->device_obj) {
+ dev = get_device(&channel->device_obj->device);
+ if (dev) {
+ vmbus_device_unregister(channel->device_obj);
+ put_device(dev);
+ }
+ }
- if (channel->device_obj)
- vmbus_device_unregister(channel->device_obj);
memset(&msg, 0, sizeof(struct vmbus_channel_relid_released));
msg.child_relid = channel->offermsg.child_relid;
msg.header.msgtype = CHANNELMSG_RELID_RELEASED;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/drivers-hv-vmbus-fix-a-race-condition-when-unregistering-a-device.patch
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