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Message-ID: <Y5y5n8JoGZNt1otY@panicking>
Date:   Fri, 16 Dec 2022 19:31:59 +0100
From:   Michael Trimarchi <michael@...rulasolutions.com>
To:     NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Cc:     Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux@...ck-us.net, shuah@...nel.org, patches@...nelci.org,
        lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org, pavel@...x.de, jonathanh@...dia.com,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com,
        slade@...dewatkins.com, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>,
        linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
        Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 000/338] 4.19.238-rc1 review

Hi Neil

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 12:29:55PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2022, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Apr 2022 at 14:09, Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@...aro.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 at 18:45, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.238 release.
> > > > There are 338 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > > let me know.
> > > >
> > > > Responses should be made by Sat, 16 Apr 2022 11:07:54 +0000.
> > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > >
> > > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > > >         https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.19.238-rc1.gz
> > > > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > > >         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.19.y
> > > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > >
> > > > greg k-h
> > >
> > >
> > > Following kernel warning noticed on arm64 Juno-r2 while booting
> > > stable-rc 4.19.238. Here is the full test log link [1].
> > >
> > > [    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0000000100 [0x410fd033]
> > > [    0.000000] Linux version 4.19.238 (tuxmake@...make) (gcc version
> > > 11.2.0 (Debian 11.2.0-18)) #1 SMP PREEMPT @1650206156
> > > [    0.000000] Machine model: ARM Juno development board (r2)
> > > <trim>
> > > [   18.499895] ================================
> > > [   18.504172] WARNING: inconsistent lock state
> > > [   18.508451] 4.19.238 #1 Not tainted
> > > [   18.511944] --------------------------------
> > > [   18.516222] inconsistent {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} -> {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} usage.
> > > [   18.522242] kworker/u12:3/60 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
> > > [   18.527826] (____ptrval____)
> > > (&(&xprt->transport_lock)->rlock){+.?.}, at: xprt_destroy+0x70/0xe0
> > > [   18.536648] {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} state was registered at:
> > > [   18.541543]   lock_acquire+0xc8/0x23c
> 
> Prior to Linux 5.3, ->transport_lock needs spin_lock_bh() and 
> spin_unlock_bh().
> 

We get the same deadlock or similar one and we think that
can be connected to this thread on 4.19.243. For us is a bit
difficult to hit but we are going to apply this change

net: sunrpc: Fix deadlock in xprt_destroy

Prior to Linux 5.3, ->transport_lock needs spin_lock_bh() and
spin_unlock_bh().

Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <michael@...rulasolutions.com>
---
 net/sunrpc/xprt.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
index d05fa7c36d00..b1abf4848bbc 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
@@ -1550,9 +1550,9 @@ static void xprt_destroy(struct rpc_xprt *xprt)
 	 * is cleared.  We use ->transport_lock to ensure the mod_timer()
 	 * can only run *before* del_time_sync(), never after.
 	 */
-	spin_lock(&xprt->transport_lock);
+	spin_lock_bh(&xprt->transport_lock);
 	del_timer_sync(&xprt->timer);
-	spin_unlock(&xprt->transport_lock);
+	spin_unlock_bh(&xprt->transport_lock);
 
 	/*
 	 * Destroy sockets etc from the system workqueue so they can
-- 
2.37.2

> Thanks,
> NeilBrown
>

Thank you