[azure][PATCH] UBUNTU: SAUCE: netvsc: fix rtnl deadlock on unregister of vf
Marcelo Henrique Cerri
marcelo.cerri at canonical.com
Mon Aug 7 13:20:33 UTC 2017
From: stephen hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1708995
With new transparent VF support, it is possible to get a deadlock
when some of the deferred work is running and the unregister_vf
is trying to cancel the work element. The solution is to use
trylock and reschedule (similar to bonding and team device).
Reported-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets at redhat.com>
Fixes: 0c195567a8f6 ("netvsc: transparent VF management")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin at microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
(cherry picked from net-next commit fb84af8a4397ee664a51c2da1dd64fb3d582ee24)
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Henrique Cerri <marcelo.cerri at canonical.com>
---
drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c | 12 ++++++++++--
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
index 1678428865d5..cd755d8ee67b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -1623,7 +1623,11 @@ static void netvsc_vf_setup(struct work_struct *w)
struct net_device *ndev = hv_get_drvdata(ndev_ctx->device_ctx);
struct net_device *vf_netdev;
- rtnl_lock();
+ if (!rtnl_trylock()) {
+ schedule_work(w);
+ return;
+ }
+
vf_netdev = rtnl_dereference(ndev_ctx->vf_netdev);
if (vf_netdev)
__netvsc_vf_setup(ndev, vf_netdev);
@@ -1677,7 +1681,11 @@ static void netvsc_vf_update(struct work_struct *w)
struct net_device *vf_netdev;
bool vf_is_up;
- rtnl_lock();
+ if (!rtnl_trylock()) {
+ schedule_work(w);
+ return;
+ }
+
vf_netdev = rtnl_dereference(ndev_ctx->vf_netdev);
if (!vf_netdev)
goto unlock;
--
2.7.4
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