linux-kernel - Re: [STABLE REQUEST] add: e1000: fix lockdep splat in shutdown handler

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Date:	Sun, 14 Oct 2012 21:24:46 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
cc:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [STABLE REQUEST] add: e1000: fix lockdep splat in shutdown
 handler

On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> commit 3a3847e007aae732d64d8fd1374126393e9879a3
> Author: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
> Date:   Wed Jan 4 20:23:33 2012 +0000
> 
>     e1000: fix lockdep splat in shutdown handler

as I discussed with Jesse on IRC, there is another possible deadlock
lurking in the e1000 code.

static void e1000_reinit_safe(struct e1000_adapter *adapter)
{
	while (test_and_set_bit(__E1000_RESETTING, &adapter->flags))
		msleep(1);
	mutex_lock(&adapter->mutex);
	e1000_down(adapter);

e1000_down() waits on the various work tasks to shut down, but those
work functions might be blocked on the adapter mutex.

I have no idea how I managed to trigger that one, but it's real. The
task dump I got out of the machine shows stuff waiting on each other
forever.

I can't give you a receipe to reprodruce. Looking at the code this is
not very surprising. It takes quite some coincidence of having
e1000_reinit_safe() being invoked and the delayed work timer bringing
the work on right after e1000_reinit_safe() took the adapter mutex.

Thanks,

	tglx
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