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Message-Id: <1179130660.3881.23.camel@kane-linux>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 17:17:40 +0900
From: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@...fujitsu.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG][PATCH] Fix race condition about network device name
allocation
Hi,
> How about the following (untested), instead. It hold a removes the sysfs
> entries earlier (on unregister_netdevice), but holds a kobject reference.
> Then when todo runs the actual last put free happens.
I've confirmed the problem is fixed by Stephen's patch on my reproduction
environment.
Thanks,
Kenji Kaneshige
2007-05-11 (金) の 09:25 -0700 に Stephen Hemminger さんは書きました:
> On Fri, 11 May 2007 14:40:45 +0900
> Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I encountered the following error when I was hot-plugging network card
> > using pci hotplug driver.
> >
> > kobject_add failed for eth8 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.
> >
> > Call Trace:
> > [<a000000100013940>] show_stack+0x40/0xa0
> > sp=e0000000652cfbf0 bsp=e0000000652c9450
> > [<a0000001000139d0>] dump_stack+0x30/0x60
> > sp=e0000000652cfdc0 bsp=e0000000652c9438
> > [<a0000001003b5af0>] kobject_shadow_add+0x3b0/0x440
> > sp=e0000000652cfdc0 bsp=e0000000652c93f0
> > [<a0000001003b5bb0>] kobject_add+0x30/0x60
> > sp=e0000000652cfdc0 bsp=e0000000652c93d0
> > [<a000000100488240>] device_add+0x160/0xf40
> > sp=e0000000652cfdc0 bsp=e0000000652c9358
> > [<a00000010061af00>] netdev_register_sysfs+0xc0/0xe0
> > sp=e0000000652cfdc0 bsp=e0000000652c9328
> > [<a0000001006006c0>] register_netdevice+0x600/0x7e0
> > sp=e0000000652cfdc0 bsp=e0000000652c92e8
> > [<a000000100600910>] register_netdev+0x70/0xc0
> > sp=e0000000652cfdd0 bsp=e0000000652c92c0
> > [<a00000020018dd70>] e1000_probe+0x1710/0x1a00 [e1000]
> > sp=e0000000652cfdd0 bsp=e0000000652c9258
> > [<a0000001003d56c0>] pci_device_probe+0xc0/0x120
> > sp=e0000000652cfde0 bsp=e0000000652c9218
> > [<a00000010048dc60>] really_probe+0x1c0/0x300
> > sp=e0000000652cfde0 bsp=e0000000652c91c8
> > [<a00000010048df40>] driver_probe_device+0x1a0/0x1c0
> > sp=e0000000652cfde0 bsp=e0000000652c9198
> > [<a00000010048df90>] __device_attach+0x30/0x60
> > sp=e0000000652cfde0 bsp=e0000000652c9170
> > [<a00000010048c080>] bus_for_each_drv+0x80/0x120
> > sp=e0000000652cfde0 bsp=e0000000652c9138
> > [<a00000010048e0c0>] device_attach+0xa0/0x100
> > sp=e0000000652cfe00 bsp=e0000000652c9110
> > [<a00000010048bec0>] bus_attach_device+0x60/0xe0
> > sp=e0000000652cfe00 bsp=e0000000652c90e0
> > [<a000000100488a30>] device_add+0x950/0xf40
> > sp=e0000000652cfe00 bsp=e0000000652c9068
> > [<a0000001003ca360>] pci_bus_add_device+0x20/0x100
> > sp=e0000000652cfe00 bsp=e0000000652c9040
> > [<a0000001003ca490>] pci_bus_add_devices+0x50/0x320
> > sp=e0000000652cfe00 bsp=e0000000652c9010
> > [<a000000200081520>] shpchp_configure_device+0x460/0x4a0 [shpchp]
> > sp=e0000000652cfe00 bsp=e0000000652c8fc0
> > [<a00000020007e7c0>] board_added+0x720/0x8c0 [shpchp]
> > sp=e0000000652cfe00 bsp=e0000000652c8f80
> > [<a00000020007f280>] shpchp_enable_slot+0x920/0xa40 [shpchp]
> > sp=e0000000652cfe10 bsp=e0000000652c8f30
> > [<a000000200080a40>] shpchp_sysfs_enable_slot+0x120/0x220 [shpchp]
> > sp=e0000000652cfe20 bsp=e0000000652c8ef8
> > [<a00000020007d270>] enable_slot+0x90/0xc0 [shpchp]
> > sp=e0000000652cfe20 bsp=e0000000652c8ed0
> > [<a00000020002a760>] power_write_file+0x1e0/0x2a0 [pci_hotplug]
> > sp=e0000000652cfe20 bsp=e0000000652c8ea0
> > [<a000000200028100>] hotplug_slot_attr_store+0x60/0xa0 [pci_hotplug]
> > sp=e0000000652cfe20 bsp=e0000000652c8e68
> > [<a0000001001cf010>] sysfs_write_file+0x270/0x300
> > sp=e0000000652cfe20 bsp=e0000000652c8e18
> > [<a0000001001395b0>] vfs_write+0x1b0/0x300
> > sp=e0000000652cfe20 bsp=e0000000652c8dc0
> > [<a00000010013a1b0>] sys_write+0x70/0xe0
> > sp=e0000000652cfe20 bsp=e0000000652c8d48
> > [<a00000010000bc20>] ia64_ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x20
> > sp=e0000000652cfe30 bsp=e0000000652c8d48
> > [<a000000000010620>] __kernel_syscall_via_break+0x0/0x20
> > sp=e0000000652d0000 bsp=e0000000652c8d48
> >
> > This error is caused by the race condition between dev_alloc_name()
> > and unregistering net device. The dev_alloc_name() function checks
> > dev_base list to find a suitable id. The net device is removed from
> > the dev_base list when net device is unregistered. Those are done with
> > rtnl lock held, so there is no problem. However, removing sysfs entry
> > is delayed until netdev_run_todo() which is outside rtnl lock. Because
> > of this, dev_alloc_name() can create a device name which is duplicated
> > with the existing sysfs entry.
> >
> > The following patch fixes this by changing dev_alloc_name() function
> > to check not only dev_base list but also todo list and snapshot list
> > to find a suitable id. If some devices exists on the todo list or
> > snapshot list, sysfs entries corresponding to them are not deleted
> > yet.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kenji Kaneshige
>
> How about the following (untested), instead. It hold a removes the sysfs
> entries earlier (on unregister_netdevice), but holds a kobject reference.
> Then when todo runs the actual last put free happens.
>
> ---
> net/core/dev.c | 10 ++++++----
> net/core/net-sysfs.c | 8 +++++++-
> 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> --- net-2.6.orig/net/core/dev.c 2007-05-11 09:10:10.000000000 -0700
> +++ net-2.6/net/core/dev.c 2007-05-11 09:21:01.000000000 -0700
> @@ -3245,7 +3245,6 @@ void netdev_run_todo(void)
> continue;
> }
>
> - netdev_unregister_sysfs(dev);
> dev->reg_state = NETREG_UNREGISTERED;
>
> netdev_wait_allrefs(dev);
> @@ -3256,11 +3255,11 @@ void netdev_run_todo(void)
> BUG_TRAP(!dev->ip6_ptr);
> BUG_TRAP(!dev->dn_ptr);
>
> - /* It must be the very last action,
> - * after this 'dev' may point to freed up memory.
> - */
> if (dev->destructor)
> dev->destructor(dev);
> +
> + /* Free network device */
> + kobject_put(&dev->dev.kobj);
> }
>
> out:
> @@ -3411,6 +3410,9 @@ void unregister_netdevice(struct net_dev
> /* Notifier chain MUST detach us from master device. */
> BUG_TRAP(!dev->master);
>
> + /* Remove entries from sysfs */
> + netdev_unregister_sysfs(dev);
> +
> /* Finish processing unregister after unlock */
> net_set_todo(dev);
>
> --- net-2.6.orig/net/core/net-sysfs.c 2007-05-11 09:10:14.000000000 -0700
> +++ net-2.6/net/core/net-sysfs.c 2007-05-11 09:14:45.000000000 -0700
> @@ -456,9 +456,15 @@ static struct class net_class = {
> #endif
> };
>
> +/* Delete sysfs entries but hold kobject reference until after all
> + * netdev references are gone.
> + */
> void netdev_unregister_sysfs(struct net_device * net)
> {
> - device_del(&(net->dev));
> + struct device *dev = &(net->dev);
> +
> + kobject_get(&dev->kobj);
> + device_del(dev);
> }
>
> /* Create sysfs entries for network device. */
-
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