From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.18 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== [ Upstream commit cac5e65e8a7ea074f2626d2eaa53aa308452dec4 ] We did a failed attempt in the past to only use rcu in rtnl dump operations (commit e67f88dd12f6 "net: dont hold rtnl mutex during netlink dump callbacks") Now that dumps are holding RTNL anyway, there is no need to also use rcu locking, as it forbids any scheduling ability, like GFP_KERNEL allocations that controlling path should use instead of GFP_ATOMIC whenever possible. This should fix following splat Cong Wang reported : [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ] 3.19.0+ #805 Tainted: G W include/linux/rcupdate.h:538 Illegal context switch in RCU read-side critical section! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0 2 locks held by ip/771: #0: (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8182b8f4>] netlink_dump+0x21/0x26c #1: (rcu_read_lock){......}, at: [<ffffffff817d785b>] rcu_read_lock+0x0/0x6e stack backtrace: CPU: 3 PID: 771 Comm: ip Tainted: G W 3.19.0+ #805 Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 0000000000000001 ffff8800d51e7718 ffffffff81a27457 0000000029e729e6 ffff8800d6108000 ffff8800d51e7748 ffffffff810b539b ffffffff820013dd 00000000000001c8 0000000000000000 ffff8800d7448088 ffff8800d51e7758 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81a27457>] dump_stack+0x4c/0x65 [<ffffffff810b539b>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x107/0x110 [<ffffffff8109796f>] rcu_preempt_sleep_check+0x45/0x47 [<ffffffff8109e457>] ___might_sleep+0x1d/0x1cb [<ffffffff8109e67d>] __might_sleep+0x78/0x80 [<ffffffff814b9b1f>] idr_alloc+0x45/0xd1 [<ffffffff810cb7ab>] ? rcu_read_lock_held+0x3b/0x3d [<ffffffff814b9f9d>] ? idr_for_each+0x53/0x101 [<ffffffff817c1383>] alloc_netid+0x61/0x69 [<ffffffff817c14c3>] __peernet2id+0x79/0x8d [<ffffffff817c1ab7>] peernet2id+0x13/0x1f [<ffffffff817d8673>] rtnl_fill_ifinfo+0xa8d/0xc20 [<ffffffff810b17d9>] ? __lock_is_held+0x39/0x52 [<ffffffff817d894f>] rtnl_dump_ifinfo+0x149/0x213 [<ffffffff8182b9c2>] netlink_dump+0xef/0x26c [<ffffffff8182bcba>] netlink_recvmsg+0x17b/0x2c5 [<ffffffff817b0adc>] __sock_recvmsg+0x4e/0x59 [<ffffffff817b1b40>] sock_recvmsg+0x3f/0x51 [<ffffffff817b1f9a>] ___sys_recvmsg+0xf6/0x1d9 [<ffffffff8115dc67>] ? handle_pte_fault+0x6e1/0xd3d [<ffffffff8100a3a0>] ? native_sched_clock+0x35/0x37 [<ffffffff8109f45b>] ? sched_clock_local+0x12/0x72 [<ffffffff8109f6ac>] ? sched_clock_cpu+0x9e/0xb7 [<ffffffff810cb7ab>] ? rcu_read_lock_held+0x3b/0x3d [<ffffffff811abde8>] ? __fcheck_files+0x4c/0x58 [<ffffffff811ac556>] ? __fget_light+0x2d/0x52 [<ffffffff817b376f>] __sys_recvmsg+0x42/0x60 [<ffffffff817b379f>] SyS_recvmsg+0x12/0x1c Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 0c7aecd4bde4b7302 ("netns: add rtnl cmd to add and get peer netns ids") Cc: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/core/rtnetlink.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c index 71706b5..c522f7a 100644 --- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c +++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c @@ -1249,7 +1249,6 @@ static int rtnl_dump_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb) s_h = cb->args[0]; s_idx = cb->args[1]; - rcu_read_lock(); cb->seq = net->dev_base_seq; /* A hack to preserve kernel<->userspace interface. @@ -1271,7 +1270,7 @@ static int rtnl_dump_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb) for (h = s_h; h < NETDEV_HASHENTRIES; h++, s_idx = 0) { idx = 0; head = &net->dev_index_head[h]; - hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(dev, head, index_hlist) { + hlist_for_each_entry(dev, head, index_hlist) { if (idx < s_idx) goto cont; err = rtnl_fill_ifinfo(skb, dev, RTM_NEWLINK, @@ -1293,7 +1292,6 @@ cont: } } out: - rcu_read_unlock(); cb->args[1] = idx; cb->args[0] = h; -- 2.1.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html