Re: [Patch V2] bonding: fix potential deadlock in bond_uninit()

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Thu Apr 01 2010 - 02:12:39 EST


Amerigo Wang <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> bond_uninit() is invoked with rtnl_lock held, when it does destroy_workqueue()
> which will potentially flush all works in this workqueue, if we hold rtnl_lock
> again in the work function, it will deadlock.
>
> So move destroy_workqueue() to destructor where rtnl_lock is not held any more,
> suggested by Eric.

The error handling on creating a bond device needs to be updated as well.

Eric


> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> index 5b92fbf..9f0aaa2 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
> @@ -4450,6 +4450,14 @@ static const struct net_device_ops bond_netdev_ops = {
> .ndo_vlan_rx_kill_vid = bond_vlan_rx_kill_vid,
> };
>
> +static void bond_destructor(struct net_device *bond_dev)
> +{
> + struct bonding *bond = netdev_priv(bond_dev);
> + if (bond->wq)
> + destroy_workqueue(bond->wq);
> + free_netdev(bond_dev);
> +}
> +
> static void bond_setup(struct net_device *bond_dev)
> {
> struct bonding *bond = netdev_priv(bond_dev);
> @@ -4470,7 +4478,7 @@ static void bond_setup(struct net_device *bond_dev)
> bond_dev->ethtool_ops = &bond_ethtool_ops;
> bond_set_mode_ops(bond, bond->params.mode);
>
> - bond_dev->destructor = free_netdev;
> + bond_dev->destructor = bond_destructor;
>
> /* Initialize the device options */
> bond_dev->tx_queue_len = 0;
> @@ -4542,9 +4550,6 @@ static void bond_uninit(struct net_device *bond_dev)
>
> bond_remove_proc_entry(bond);
>
> - if (bond->wq)
> - destroy_workqueue(bond->wq);
> -
> netif_addr_lock_bh(bond_dev);
> bond_mc_list_destroy(bond);
> netif_addr_unlock_bh(bond_dev);
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