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authorParvi Kaustubhi <pkaustub@cisco.com>2018-12-11 14:15:42 -0800
committerJason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>2018-12-19 16:30:16 -0700
commit8036e90f92aae2784b855a0007ae2d8154d28b3c (patch)
tree9318314659953114da77ef2f3739ef0ff4c7a28b
parent50c582de1d39231af31c881a8444333bff6f11a8 (diff)
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IB/usnic: Fix potential deadlock
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>
-rw-r--r--drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_verbs.c11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_verbs.c
index 1b9f69d65111..1d4abef17e38 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_verbs.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_verbs.c
@@ -336,13 +336,16 @@ 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;