netdev - [PATCH net] virtio-net: fix a rtnl_lock() deadlock during probing

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Message-ID: <20250630095109.214013-1-zuozhijie@bytedance.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:51:09 +0800
From: Zigit Zo <zuozhijie@...edance.com>
To: mst@...hat.com,
	jasowang@...hat.com,
	xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com,
	eperezma@...hat.com
Cc: zuozhijie@...edance.com,
	virtualization@...ts.linux.dev,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net] virtio-net: fix a rtnl_lock() deadlock during probing

This bug happens if the VMM sends a VIRTIO_NET_S_ANNOUNCE request while
the virtio-net driver is still probing with rtnl_lock() hold, this will
cause a recursive mutex in netdev_notify_peers().

Fix it by skip acking the annouce in virtnet_config_changed_work() when
probing. The annouce will still get done when ndo_open() enables the
virtio_config_driver_enable().

We've observed a softlockup with Ubuntu 24.04, and can be reproduced with
QEMU sending the announce_self rapidly while booting.

[  494.167473] INFO: task swapper/0:1 blocked for more than 368 seconds.
[  494.167667]       Not tainted 6.8.0-57-generic #59-Ubuntu
[  494.167810] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[  494.168015] task:swapper/0       state:D stack:0     pid:1     tgid:1     ppid:0      flags:0x00004000
[  494.168260] Call Trace:
[  494.168329]  <TASK>
[  494.168389]  __schedule+0x27c/0x6b0
[  494.168495]  schedule+0x33/0x110
[  494.168585]  schedule_preempt_disabled+0x15/0x30
[  494.168709]  __mutex_lock.constprop.0+0x42f/0x740
[  494.168835]  __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x13/0x20
[  494.168949]  mutex_lock+0x3c/0x50
[  494.169039]  rtnl_lock+0x15/0x20
[  494.169128]  netdev_notify_peers+0x12/0x30
[  494.169240]  virtnet_config_changed_work+0x152/0x1a0
[  494.169377]  virtnet_probe+0xa48/0xe00
[  494.169484]  ? vp_get+0x4d/0x100
[  494.169574]  virtio_dev_probe+0x1e9/0x310
[  494.169682]  really_probe+0x1c7/0x410
[  494.169783]  __driver_probe_device+0x8c/0x180
[  494.169901]  driver_probe_device+0x24/0xd0
[  494.170011]  __driver_attach+0x10b/0x210
[  494.170117]  ? __pfx___driver_attach+0x10/0x10
[  494.170237]  bus_for_each_dev+0x8d/0xf0
[  494.170341]  driver_attach+0x1e/0x30
[  494.170440]  bus_add_driver+0x14e/0x290
[  494.170548]  driver_register+0x5e/0x130
[  494.170651]  ? __pfx_virtio_net_driver_init+0x10/0x10
[  494.170788]  register_virtio_driver+0x20/0x40
[  494.170905]  virtio_net_driver_init+0x97/0xb0
[  494.171022]  do_one_initcall+0x5e/0x340
[  494.171128]  do_initcalls+0x107/0x230
[  494.171228]  ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10
[  494.171340]  kernel_init_freeable+0x134/0x210
[  494.171462]  kernel_init+0x1b/0x200
[  494.171560]  ret_from_fork+0x47/0x70
[  494.171659]  ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10
[  494.171769]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
[  494.171875]  </TASK>

Fixes: df28de7b0050 ("virtio-net: synchronize operstate with admin state on up/down")
Signed-off-by: Zigit Zo <zuozhijie@...edance.com>
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index e53ba600605a..0290d289ebee 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -6211,7 +6211,8 @@ static const struct net_device_ops virtnet_netdev = {
 	.ndo_tx_timeout		= virtnet_tx_timeout,
 };
 
-static void virtnet_config_changed_work(struct work_struct *work)
+static void __virtnet_config_changed_work(struct work_struct *work,
+					  bool check_announce)
 {
 	struct virtnet_info *vi =
 		container_of(work, struct virtnet_info, config_work);
@@ -6221,7 +6222,7 @@ static void virtnet_config_changed_work(struct work_struct *work)
 				 struct virtio_net_config, status, &v) < 0)
 		return;
 
-	if (v & VIRTIO_NET_S_ANNOUNCE) {
+	if (check_announce && (v & VIRTIO_NET_S_ANNOUNCE)) {
 		netdev_notify_peers(vi->dev);
 		virtnet_ack_link_announce(vi);
 	}
@@ -6244,6 +6245,11 @@ static void virtnet_config_changed_work(struct work_struct *work)
 	}
 }
 
+static void virtnet_config_changed_work(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+	__virtnet_config_changed_work(work, true);
+}
+
 static void virtnet_config_changed(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 {
 	struct virtnet_info *vi = vdev->priv;
@@ -7030,7 +7036,10 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
 	   otherwise get link status from config. */
 	netif_carrier_off(dev);
 	if (virtio_has_feature(vi->vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_STATUS)) {
-		virtnet_config_changed_work(&vi->config_work);
+		/* The check_annouce work will get scheduled when ndo_open()
+		 * doing the virtio_config_driver_enable().
+		 */
+		__virtnet_config_changed_work(&vi->config_work, false);
 	} else {
 		vi->status = VIRTIO_NET_S_LINK_UP;
 		virtnet_update_settings(vi);

base-commit: 2def09ead4ad5907988b655d1e1454003aaf8297
-- 
2.49.0