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[ Upstream commit e04e7a7bbd4bbabef4e1a58367e5fc9b2edc3b10 ] This patch fixes the race between netvsc_probe() and rndis_set_subchannel(), which can cause a deadlock. These are the related 3 paths which show the deadlock: path #1: Workqueue: hv_vmbus_con vmbus_onmessage_work [hv_vmbus] Call Trace: schedule schedule_preempt_disabled __mutex_lock __device_attach bus_probe_device device_add vmbus_device_register vmbus_onoffer vmbus_onmessage_work process_one_work worker_thread kthread ret_from_fork path #2: schedule schedule_preempt_disabled __mutex_lock netvsc_probe vmbus_probe really_probe __driver_attach bus_for_each_dev driver_attach_async async_run_entry_fn process_one_work worker_thread kthread ret_from_fork path #3: Workqueue: events netvsc_subchan_work [hv_netvsc] Call Trace: schedule rndis_set_subchannel netvsc_subchan_work process_one_work worker_thread kthread ret_from_fork Before path #1 finishes, path #2 can start to run, because just before the "bus_probe_device(dev);" in device_add() in path #1, there is a line "object_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);", so systemd-udevd can immediately try to load hv_netvsc and hence path #2 can start to run. Next, path #2 offloads the subchannal's initialization to a workqueue, i.e. path #3, so we can end up in a deadlock situation like this: Path #2 gets the device lock, and is trying to get the rtnl lock; Path #3 gets the rtnl lock and is waiting for all the subchannel messages to be processed; Path #1 is trying to get the device lock, but since #2 is not releasing the device lock, path #1 has to sleep; since the VMBus messages are processed one by one, this means the sub-channel messages can't be procedded, so #3 has to sleep with the rtnl lock held, and finally #2 has to sleep... Now all the 3 paths are sleeping and we hit the deadlock. With the patch, we can make sure #2 gets both the device lock and the rtnl lock together, gets its job done, and releases the locks, so #1 and #3 will not be blocked for ever. Fixes: 8195b1396ec8 ("hv_netvsc: fix deadlock on hotplug") Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com> Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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