Re: [syzbot] WARNING: refcount bug in nldev_newlink

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 11:14:39AM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:

> >  __refcount_dec include/linux/refcount.h:344 [inline]
> >  refcount_dec include/linux/refcount.h:359 [inline]
> >  ref_tracker_free+0x539/0x6b0 lib/ref_tracker.c:118
> >  netdev_tracker_free include/linux/netdevice.h:4039 [inline]
> >  netdev_put include/linux/netdevice.h:4056 [inline]
> >  dev_put include/linux/netdevice.h:4082 [inline]
> >  nldev_newlink+0x360/0x5d0 drivers/infiniband/core/nldev.c:1733
> >  rdma_nl_rcv_msg+0x371/0x6a0 drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c:195
> >  rdma_nl_rcv_skb.constprop.0.isra.0+0x2fc/0x440 drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c:239
> >  netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1330 [inline]
> >  netlink_unicast+0x547/0x7f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1356
> >  netlink_sendmsg+0x91b/0xe10 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1932
> >  sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
> >  sock_sendmsg+0xd3/0x120 net/socket.c:734
> >  ____sys_sendmsg+0x712/0x8c0 net/socket.c:2476
> >  ___sys_sendmsg+0x110/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2530
> >  __sys_sendmsg+0xf7/0x1c0 net/socket.c:2559
> >  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
> >  do_syscall_64+0x39/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
> >  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
> > RIP: 0033:0x7fd5bc473699
> > Code: 28 00 00 00 75 05 48 83 c4 28 c3 e8 41 15 00 00 90 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 c0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
> > RSP: 002b:00007ffed185aff8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
> > RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00007fd5bc473699
> > RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000020000340 RDI: 0000000000000003
> > RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 000000000000000d R09: 000000000000000d
> > R10: 00007ffed185aa70 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffed185b010
> > R13: 00000000000f4240 R14: 0000000000011fc1 R15: 00007ffed185b004
> >  </TASK>
> > 
> > 
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> 
> Jason, what do you think?

No, the key to this report is that the refcount dec is inside the tracker:

> >  __refcount_dec include/linux/refcount.h:344 [inline]
> >  refcount_dec include/linux/refcount.h:359 [inline]
> >  ref_tracker_free+0x539/0x6b0 lib/ref_tracker.c:118
> >  netdev_tracker_free include/linux/netdevice.h:4039 [inline]

Which is not underflowing the refcount on the dev, it is actually
trying to say the tracker has become unbalanced.

Eg this put is not matched with a hold that specified the tracker.

Probably this:

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c
index ff35cebb25e265..115b77c5e9a146 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c
@@ -2192,6 +2192,7 @@ static void free_netdevs(struct ib_device *ib_dev)
                if (ndev) {
                        spin_lock(&ndev_hash_lock);
                        hash_del_rcu(&pdata->ndev_hash_link);
+                       netdev_tracker_free(ndev, &pdata->netdev_tracker);
                        spin_unlock(&ndev_hash_lock);
 
                        /*
@@ -2201,7 +2202,7 @@ static void free_netdevs(struct ib_device *ib_dev)
                         * comparisons after the put
                         */
                        rcu_assign_pointer(pdata->netdev, NULL);
-                       dev_put(ndev);
+                       __dev_put(ndev);
                }
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pdata->netdev_lock, flags);
        }