netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] ipv6 mcast: use del_timer_sync instead of del_timer in ipv6_mc

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Message-ID: <1378391415.3159.3.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.level5networks.com>
Date:	Thu, 5 Sep 2013 15:30:15 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Salam Noureddine <noureddine@...stanetworks.com>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ipv6 mcast: use del_timer_sync instead of del_timer
 in ipv6_mc_down

On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 23:42 -0700, Salam Noureddine wrote:
> Delete timers using del_timer_sync in ipv6_mc_down. Otherwise, it is
> possible for the timer to be the last to release its reference to the
> inet6_dev and since __in6_dev_put doesn't destroy the inet6_dev we
> would end up leaking a reference to the net_device and see messages
> like the following,
> 
> unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. Usage count = 1
> 
> Tested on linux-3.4.43.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Salam Noureddine <noureddine@...stanetworks.com>
> ---
>  net/ipv6/mcast.c |    6 +++---
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/mcast.c b/net/ipv6/mcast.c
> index 99cd65c..5c8d49d 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/mcast.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/mcast.c
> @@ -2277,12 +2277,12 @@ void ipv6_mc_down(struct inet6_dev *idev)
>  
>  	read_lock_bh(&idev->lock);
>  	idev->mc_ifc_count = 0;
> -	if (del_timer(&idev->mc_ifc_timer))
> +	if (del_timer_sync(&idev->mc_ifc_timer))

Are you sure this doesn't introduce a potential deadlock?  Have you
tested this with lockdep enabled?

Ben.

>  		__in6_dev_put(idev);
>  	idev->mc_gq_running = 0;
> -	if (del_timer(&idev->mc_gq_timer))
> +	if (del_timer_sync(&idev->mc_gq_timer))
>  		__in6_dev_put(idev);
> -	if (del_timer(&idev->mc_dad_timer))
> +	if (del_timer_sync(&idev->mc_dad_timer))
>  		__in6_dev_put(idev);
>  
>  	for (i = idev->mc_list; i; i=i->next)

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
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