commit 6cdedc18ba7b9dacc36466e27e3267d201948c8d upstream. The following 3 locks would race against each other, causing the deadlock situation in the Syzbot bug report: - j1939_socks_lock - active_session_list_lock - sk_session_queue_lock A reasonable fix is to change j1939_socks_lock to an rwlock, since in the rare situations where a write lock is required for the linked list that j1939_socks_lock is protecting, the code does not attempt to acquire any more locks. This would break the circular lock dependency, where, for example, the current thread already locks j1939_socks_lock and attempts to acquire sk_session_queue_lock, and at the same time, another thread attempts to acquire j1939_socks_lock while holding sk_session_queue_lock. NOTE: This patch along does not fix the unregister_netdevice bug reported by Syzbot; instead, it solves a deadlock situation to prepare for one or more further patches to actually fix the Syzbot bug, which appears to be a reference counting problem within the j1939 codebase. Reported-by: <syzbot+1591462f226d9cbf0564@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ziqi Zhao <astrajoan@yahoo.com> Reviewed-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230721162226.8639-1-astrajoan@yahoo.com [mkl: remove unrelated newline change] Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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