linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 161/161] nbd: fix shutdown and recv work deadlock v2

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Message-Id: <20191229162450.809936938@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Sun, 29 Dec 2019 18:20:09 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Mike Christie <mchristi@...hat.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 161/161] nbd: fix shutdown and recv work deadlock v2

From: Mike Christie <mchristi@...hat.com>

commit 1c05839aa973cfae8c3db964a21f9c0eef8fcc21 upstream.

This fixes a regression added with:

commit e9e006f5fcf2bab59149cb38a48a4817c1b538b4
Author: Mike Christie <mchristi@...hat.com>
Date:   Sun Aug 4 14:10:06 2019 -0500

    nbd: fix max number of supported devs

where we can deadlock during device shutdown. The problem occurs if
the recv_work's nbd_config_put occurs after nbd_start_device_ioctl has
returned and the userspace app has droppped its reference via closing
the device and running nbd_release. The recv_work nbd_config_put call
would then drop the refcount to zero and try to destroy the config which
would try to do destroy_workqueue from the recv work.

This patch just has nbd_start_device_ioctl do a flush_workqueue when it
wakes so we know after the ioctl returns running works have exited. This
also fixes a possible race where we could try to reuse the device while
old recv_works are still running.

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Fixes: e9e006f5fcf2 ("nbd: fix max number of supported devs")
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/block/nbd.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -1234,10 +1234,10 @@ static int nbd_start_device_ioctl(struct
 	mutex_unlock(&nbd->config_lock);
 	ret = wait_event_interruptible(config->recv_wq,
 					 atomic_read(&config->recv_threads) == 0);
-	if (ret) {
+	if (ret)
 		sock_shutdown(nbd);
-		flush_workqueue(nbd->recv_workq);
-	}
+	flush_workqueue(nbd->recv_workq);
+
 	mutex_lock(&nbd->config_lock);
 	bd_set_size(bdev, 0);
 	/* user requested, ignore socket errors */