netdev - [PATCH net 2/2] xen-netback: don't vfree() queues under spinlock

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Message-ID: <1488459266-29269-3-git-send-email-paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Date:   Thu, 2 Mar 2017 12:54:26 +0000
From:   Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@...rix.com>
To:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>
CC:     Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@...rix.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>
Subject: [PATCH net 2/2] xen-netback: don't vfree() queues under spinlock

This leads to a BUG of the following form:

[  174.512861] switch: port 2(vif3.0) entered disabled state
[  174.522735] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
/home/build/linux-linus/mm/vmalloc.c:1441
[  174.523451] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 28, name: xenwatch
[  174.524131] CPU: 1 PID: 28 Comm: xenwatch Tainted: G        W
4.10.0upstream-11073-g4977ab6-dirty #1
[  174.524819] Hardware name: MSI MS-7680/H61M-P23 (MS-7680), BIOS V17.0
03/14/2011
[  174.525517] Call Trace:
[  174.526217]  show_stack+0x23/0x60
[  174.526899]  dump_stack+0x5b/0x88
[  174.527562]  ___might_sleep+0xde/0x130
[  174.528208]  __might_sleep+0x35/0xa0
[  174.528840]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x13/0x20
[  174.529463]  ? __wake_up+0x40/0x50
[  174.530089]  remove_vm_area+0x20/0x90
[  174.530724]  __vunmap+0x1d/0xc0
[  174.531346]  ? delete_object_full+0x13/0x20
[  174.531973]  vfree+0x40/0x80
[  174.532594]  set_backend_state+0x18a/0xa90
[  174.533221]  ? dwc_scan_descriptors+0x24d/0x430
[  174.533850]  ? kfree+0x5b/0xc0
[  174.534476]  ? xenbus_read+0x3d/0x50
[  174.535101]  ? xenbus_read+0x3d/0x50
[  174.535718]  ? xenbus_gather+0x31/0x90
[  174.536332]  ? ___might_sleep+0xf6/0x130
[  174.536945]  frontend_changed+0x6b/0xd0
[  174.537565]  xenbus_otherend_changed+0x7d/0x80
[  174.538185]  frontend_changed+0x12/0x20
[  174.538803]  xenwatch_thread+0x74/0x110
[  174.539417]  ? woken_wake_function+0x20/0x20
[  174.540049]  kthread+0xe5/0x120
[  174.540663]  ? xenbus_printf+0x50/0x50
[  174.541278]  ? __kthread_init_worker+0x40/0x40
[  174.541898]  ret_from_fork+0x21/0x2c
[  174.548635] switch: port 2(vif3.0) entered disabled state

This patch defers the vfree() until after the spinlock is released.

Reported-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@...rix.com>
---
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@...rix.com>
---
 drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c b/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
index d82ddc9..d2d7cd9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
@@ -496,6 +496,7 @@ static void backend_disconnect(struct backend_info *be)
 
 	if (vif) {
 		unsigned int queue_index;
+		struct xenvif_queue *queues;
 
 		xen_unregister_watchers(vif);
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
@@ -508,11 +509,13 @@ static void backend_disconnect(struct backend_info *be)
 			xenvif_deinit_queue(&vif->queues[queue_index]);
 
 		spin_lock(&vif->lock);
-		vfree(vif->queues);
+		queues = vif->queues;
 		vif->num_queues = 0;
 		vif->queues = NULL;
 		spin_unlock(&vif->lock);
 
+		vfree(queues);
+
 		xenvif_disconnect_ctrl(vif);
 	}
 }
-- 
2.1.4