linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 025/149] xen-netfront: fix potential deadlock in xennet

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Message-Id: <20200820092126.939313881@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 20 Aug 2020 11:21:42 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@...onical.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 025/149] xen-netfront: fix potential deadlock in xennet_remove()

From: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@...onical.com>

[ Upstream commit c2c633106453611be07821f53dff9e93a9d1c3f0 ]

There's a potential race in xennet_remove(); this is what the driver is
doing upon unregistering a network device:

  1. state = read bus state
  2. if state is not "Closed":
  3.    request to set state to "Closing"
  4.    wait for state to be set to "Closing"
  5.    request to set state to "Closed"
  6.    wait for state to be set to "Closed"

If the state changes to "Closed" immediately after step 1 we are stuck
forever in step 4, because the state will never go back from "Closed" to
"Closing".

Make sure to check also for state == "Closed" in step 4 to prevent the
deadlock.

Also add a 5 sec timeout any time we wait for the bus state to change,
to avoid getting stuck forever in wait_event().

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@...onical.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/net/xen-netfront.c |   64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netfront.c
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ module_param_named(max_queues, xennet_ma
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_queues,
 		 "Maximum number of queues per virtual interface");
 
+#define XENNET_TIMEOUT  (5 * HZ)
+
 static const struct ethtool_ops xennet_ethtool_ops;
 
 struct netfront_cb {
@@ -1349,12 +1351,15 @@ static struct net_device *xennet_create_
 
 	netif_carrier_off(netdev);
 
-	xenbus_switch_state(dev, XenbusStateInitialising);
-	wait_event(module_wq,
-		   xenbus_read_driver_state(dev->otherend) !=
-		   XenbusStateClosed &&
-		   xenbus_read_driver_state(dev->otherend) !=
-		   XenbusStateUnknown);
+	do {
+		xenbus_switch_state(dev, XenbusStateInitialising);
+		err = wait_event_timeout(module_wq,
+				 xenbus_read_driver_state(dev->otherend) !=
+				 XenbusStateClosed &&
+				 xenbus_read_driver_state(dev->otherend) !=
+				 XenbusStateUnknown, XENNET_TIMEOUT);
+	} while (!err);
+
 	return netdev;
 
  exit:
@@ -2166,28 +2171,43 @@ static const struct attribute_group xenn
 };
 #endif /* CONFIG_SYSFS */
 
-static int xennet_remove(struct xenbus_device *dev)
+static void xennet_bus_close(struct xenbus_device *dev)
 {
-	struct netfront_info *info = dev_get_drvdata(&dev->dev);
-
-	dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "%s\n", dev->nodename);
+	int ret;
 
-	if (xenbus_read_driver_state(dev->otherend) != XenbusStateClosed) {
+	if (xenbus_read_driver_state(dev->otherend) == XenbusStateClosed)
+		return;
+	do {
 		xenbus_switch_state(dev, XenbusStateClosing);
-		wait_event(module_wq,
-			   xenbus_read_driver_state(dev->otherend) ==
-			   XenbusStateClosing ||
-			   xenbus_read_driver_state(dev->otherend) ==
-			   XenbusStateUnknown);
+		ret = wait_event_timeout(module_wq,
+				   xenbus_read_driver_state(dev->otherend) ==
+				   XenbusStateClosing ||
+				   xenbus_read_driver_state(dev->otherend) ==
+				   XenbusStateClosed ||
+				   xenbus_read_driver_state(dev->otherend) ==
+				   XenbusStateUnknown,
+				   XENNET_TIMEOUT);
+	} while (!ret);
 
+	if (xenbus_read_driver_state(dev->otherend) == XenbusStateClosed)
+		return;
+
+	do {
 		xenbus_switch_state(dev, XenbusStateClosed);
-		wait_event(module_wq,
-			   xenbus_read_driver_state(dev->otherend) ==
-			   XenbusStateClosed ||
-			   xenbus_read_driver_state(dev->otherend) ==
-			   XenbusStateUnknown);
-	}
+		ret = wait_event_timeout(module_wq,
+				   xenbus_read_driver_state(dev->otherend) ==
+				   XenbusStateClosed ||
+				   xenbus_read_driver_state(dev->otherend) ==
+				   XenbusStateUnknown,
+				   XENNET_TIMEOUT);
+	} while (!ret);
+}
+
+static int xennet_remove(struct xenbus_device *dev)
+{
+	struct netfront_info *info = dev_get_drvdata(&dev->dev);
 
+	xennet_bus_close(dev);
 	xennet_disconnect_backend(info);
 
 	if (info->netdev->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED)