netdev - A soft lockup in vxlan module

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Date:	Wed, 07 Aug 2013 09:23:54 +0800
From:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: A soft lockup in vxlan module

Hi, Stephen

You introduced a soft lockup in vxlan module in

commit fe5c3561e6f0ac7c9546209f01351113c1b77ec8
Author: stephen hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Date:   Sat Jul 13 10:18:18 2013 -0700

    vxlan: add necessary locking on device removal

The problem is that vxlan_dellink(), which is called with RTNL lock
held, tries to flush the workqueue synchronously, but apparently
igmp_join and igmp_leave work need to hold RTNL lock too, therefore we
have a soft lockup! This is 100% reproducible on my 2.6.32 backport
while running `modprobe -r vxlan`.

A quick but perhaps ugly fix is just releasing RTNL lock before calling
flush_workqueue():

diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan.c b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
index 8bf31d9..581d3d5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
@@ -1837,7 +1837,9 @@ static void vxlan_dellink(struct net_device *dev,
struct list_head *head)
        struct vxlan_net *vn = net_generic(dev_net(dev), vxlan_net_id);
        struct vxlan_dev *vxlan = netdev_priv(dev);

+       rtnl_unlock();
        flush_workqueue(vxlan_wq);
+       rtnl_lock();

        spin_lock(&vn->sock_lock);
        hlist_del_rcu(&vxlan->hlist);

However, I think a better way is still what I did, that is, removing
RTNL lock from ip_mc_join_group() and ip_mc_leave_group().

What do you think? Any other idea to fix it?

Thanks.

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