linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Netvsc: Call hv_unmap_memory() in the netvsc_device

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Message-ID: <6ee926b0-5579-bb9b-da94-51d793a3d782@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 8 Feb 2022 22:19:19 +0800
From:   Tianyu Lan <ltykernel@...il.com>
To:     "Michael Kelley (LINUX)" <mikelley@...rosoft.com>,
        KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Netvsc: Call hv_unmap_memory() in the
 netvsc_device_remove()

On 2/3/2022 1:05 AM, Michael Kelley (LINUX) wrote:
> From: Tianyu Lan<ltykernel@...il.com>  Sent: Tuesday, February 1, 2022 8:32 AM
>> netvsc_device_remove() calls vunmap() inside which should not be
>> called in the interrupt context. Current code calls hv_unmap_memory()
>> in the free_netvsc_device() which is rcu callback and maybe called
>> in the interrupt context. This will trigger BUG_ON(in_interrupt())
>> in the vunmap(). Fix it via moving hv_unmap_memory() to netvsc_device_
>> remove().
> I think this change can fail to call hv_unmap_memory() in an error case.
> 
> If netvsc_init_buf() fails after hv_map_memory() succeeds for the receive
> buffer or for the send buffer, no corresponding hv_unmap_memory() will
> be done.  The failure in netvsc_init_buf() will cause netvsc_connect_vsp()
> to fail, so netvsc_add_device() will "goto close" where free_netvsc_device()
> will be called.  But free_netvsc_device() no longer calls hv_unmap_memory(),
> so it won't ever happen.   netvsc_device_remove() is never called in this case
> because netvsc_add_device() failed.
> 

Hi Michael:
       Thanks for your review. Nice catch and will fix in the next
version.