IB/usnic: Fix potential deadlock
authorParvi Kaustubhi <pkaustub@cisco.com>
Tue, 11 Dec 2018 22:15:42 +0000 (14:15 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 26 Jan 2019 08:37:06 +0000 (09:37 +0100)
[ Upstream commit 8036e90f92aae2784b855a0007ae2d8154d28b3c ]

Acquiring the rtnl lock while holding usdev_lock could result in a
deadlock.

For example:

usnic_ib_query_port()
| mutex_lock(&us_ibdev->usdev_lock)
 | ib_get_eth_speed()
  | rtnl_lock()

rtnl_lock()
| usnic_ib_netdevice_event()
 | mutex_lock(&us_ibdev->usdev_lock)

This commit moves the usdev_lock acquisition after the rtnl lock has been
released.

This is safe to do because usdev_lock is not protecting anything being
accessed in ib_get_eth_speed(). Hence, the correct order of holding locks
(rtnl -> usdev_lock) is not violated.

Signed-off-by: Parvi Kaustubhi <pkaustub@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_verbs.c

index 3c3453d..fdfa250 100644 (file)
@@ -310,13 +310,16 @@ int usnic_ib_query_port(struct ib_device *ibdev, u8 port,
 
        usnic_dbg("\n");
 
-       mutex_lock(&us_ibdev->usdev_lock);
        if (ib_get_eth_speed(ibdev, port, &props->active_speed,
-                            &props->active_width)) {
-               mutex_unlock(&us_ibdev->usdev_lock);
+                            &props->active_width))
                return -EINVAL;
-       }
 
+       /*
+        * usdev_lock is acquired after (and not before) ib_get_eth_speed call
+        * because acquiring rtnl_lock in ib_get_eth_speed, while holding
+        * usdev_lock could lead to a deadlock.
+        */
+       mutex_lock(&us_ibdev->usdev_lock);
        /* props being zeroed by the caller, avoid zeroing it here */
 
        props->lid = 0;