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Date:   Wed, 28 Jul 2021 10:42:12 +0300
From:   Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...dia.com>
To:     Yufeng Mo <moyufeng@...wei.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
        kuba@...nel.org, jay.vosburgh@...onical.com, jiri@...nulli.us
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, shenjian15@...wei.com,
        lipeng321@...wei.com, yisen.zhuang@...wei.com,
        linyunsheng@...wei.com, zhangjiaran@...wei.com,
        huangguangbin2@...wei.com, chenhao288@...ilicon.com,
        salil.mehta@...wei.com, linuxarm@...wei.com, linuxarm@...neuler.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bonding: 3ad: fix the concurrency between
 __bond_release_one() and bond_3ad_state_machine_handler()

On 28/07/2021 10:34, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> On 28/07/2021 09:19, Yufeng Mo wrote:
>> Some time ago, I reported a calltrace issue
>> "did not find a suitable aggregator", please see[1].
>> After a period of analysis and reproduction, I find
>> that this problem is caused by concurrency.
>>
>> Before the problem occurs, the bond structure is like follows:
>>
>> bond0 - slaver0(eth0) - agg0.lag_ports -> port0 - port1
>>                       \
>>                         port0
>>       \
>>         slaver1(eth1) - agg1.lag_ports -> NULL
>>                       \
>>                         port1
>>
>> If we run 'ifenslave bond0 -d eth1', the process is like below:
>>
>> excuting __bond_release_one()
>> |
>> bond_upper_dev_unlink()[step1]
>> |                       |                       |
>> |                       |                       bond_3ad_lacpdu_recv()
>> |                       |                       ->bond_3ad_rx_indication()
>> |                       |                       spin_lock_bh()
>> |                       |                       ->ad_rx_machine()
>> |                       |                       ->__record_pdu()[step2]
>> |                       |                       spin_unlock_bh()
>> |                       |                       |
>> |                       bond_3ad_state_machine_handler()
>> |                       spin_lock_bh()
>> |                       ->ad_port_selection_logic()
>> |                       ->try to find free aggregator[step3]
>> |                       ->try to find suitable aggregator[step4]
>> |                       ->did not find a suitable aggregator[step5]
>> |                       spin_unlock_bh()
>> |                       |
>> |                       |
>> bond_3ad_unbind_slave() |
>> spin_lock_bh()
>> spin_unlock_bh()
>>
>> step1: already removed slaver1(eth1) from list, but port1 remains
>> step2: receive a lacpdu and update port0
>> step3: port0 will be removed from agg0.lag_ports. The struct is
>>        "agg0.lag_ports -> port1" now, and agg0 is not free. At the
>> 	   same time, slaver1/agg1 has been removed from the list by step1.
>> 	   So we can't find a free aggregator now.
>> step4: can't find suitable aggregator because of step2
>> step5: cause a calltrace since port->aggregator is NULL
>>
>> To solve this concurrency problem, the range of bond->mode_lock
>> is extended from only bond_3ad_unbind_slave() to both
>> bond_upper_dev_unlink() and bond_3ad_unbind_slave().
>>
>> [1]https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/10374.1611947473@famine/
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yufeng Mo <moyufeng@...wei.com>
>> Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@...onical.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c  | 7 +------
>>  drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 6 +++++-
>>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>>
> [snip]
> after netdev_rx_handler_unregister() the bond's recv_probe cannot be executed
> so you don't really need to unlink it under mode_lock or move mode_lock at all
^^^^
Forget this part of the comment, I saw later that you don't want to receive
lacpdu on the other port

The notifier sleep problem still exists though.

> 
>>  	if (BOND_MODE(bond) == BOND_MODE_8023AD)
>>  		bond_3ad_unbind_slave(slave);
>> +	spin_unlock_bh(&bond->mode_lock);
>>  
>>  	if (bond_mode_can_use_xmit_hash(bond))
>>  		bond_update_slave_arr(bond, slave);
>>
> 

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