[PATCH 5.4 138/222] net: avoid updating qdisc_xmit_lock_key in netdev_update_lockdep_key()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Jan 22 2020 - 08:23:42 EST


From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 53d374979ef147ab51f5d632dfe20b14aebeccd0 ]

syzbot reported some bogus lockdep warnings, for example bad unlock
balance in sch_direct_xmit(). They are due to a race condition between
slow path and fast path, that is qdisc_xmit_lock_key gets re-registered
in netdev_update_lockdep_key() on slow path, while we could still
acquire the queue->_xmit_lock on fast path in this small window:

CPU A CPU B
__netif_tx_lock();
lockdep_unregister_key(qdisc_xmit_lock_key);
__netif_tx_unlock();
lockdep_register_key(qdisc_xmit_lock_key);

In fact, unlike the addr_list_lock which has to be reordered when
the master/slave device relationship changes, queue->_xmit_lock is
only acquired on fast path and only when NETIF_F_LLTX is not set,
so there is likely no nested locking for it.

Therefore, we can just get rid of re-registration of
qdisc_xmit_lock_key.

Reported-by: syzbot+4ec99438ed7450da6272@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: ab92d68fc22f ("net: core: add generic lockdep keys")
Cc: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/dev.c | 12 ------------
1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)

--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -8953,22 +8953,10 @@ static void netdev_unregister_lockdep_ke

void netdev_update_lockdep_key(struct net_device *dev)
{
- struct netdev_queue *queue;
- int i;
-
- lockdep_unregister_key(&dev->qdisc_xmit_lock_key);
lockdep_unregister_key(&dev->addr_list_lock_key);
-
- lockdep_register_key(&dev->qdisc_xmit_lock_key);
lockdep_register_key(&dev->addr_list_lock_key);

lockdep_set_class(&dev->addr_list_lock, &dev->addr_list_lock_key);
- for (i = 0; i < dev->num_tx_queues; i++) {
- queue = netdev_get_tx_queue(dev, i);
-
- lockdep_set_class(&queue->_xmit_lock,
- &dev->qdisc_xmit_lock_key);
- }
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_update_lockdep_key);