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IB/core: Avoid deadlock during netlink message handling
authorParav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
Tue, 15 Oct 2019 08:07:33 +0000 (11:07 +0300)
committerJason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Thu, 24 Oct 2019 23:49:37 +0000 (20:49 -0300)
commit549af00833028b5803528553a4743e0cd1fdbee9
tree3c46d34374cbcb9d796fe4ce914015350fe756ea
parenta15542bb72a48042f5df7475893d46f725f5f9fb
IB/core: Avoid deadlock during netlink message handling

When rdmacm module is not loaded, and when netlink message is received to
get char device info, it results into a deadlock due to recursive locking
of rdma_nl_mutex with the below call sequence.

[..]
  rdma_nl_rcv()
  mutex_lock()
   [..]
   rdma_nl_rcv_msg()
      ib_get_client_nl_info()
         request_module()
           iw_cm_init()
             rdma_nl_register()
               mutex_lock(); <- Deadlock, acquiring mutex again

Due to above call sequence, following call trace and deadlock is observed.

  kernel: __mutex_lock+0x35e/0x860
  kernel: ? __mutex_lock+0x129/0x860
  kernel: ? rdma_nl_register+0x1a/0x90 [ib_core]
  kernel: rdma_nl_register+0x1a/0x90 [ib_core]
  kernel: ? 0xffffffffc029b000
  kernel: iw_cm_init+0x34/0x1000 [iw_cm]
  kernel: do_one_initcall+0x67/0x2d4
  kernel: ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1ec/0x2a0
  kernel: do_init_module+0x5a/0x223
  kernel: load_module+0x1998/0x1e10
  kernel: ? __symbol_put+0x60/0x60
  kernel: __do_sys_finit_module+0x94/0xe0
  kernel: do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x270
  kernel: entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

  process stack trace:
  [<0>] __request_module+0x1c9/0x460
  [<0>] ib_get_client_nl_info+0x5e/0xb0 [ib_core]
  [<0>] nldev_get_chardev+0x1ac/0x320 [ib_core]
  [<0>] rdma_nl_rcv_msg+0xeb/0x1d0 [ib_core]
  [<0>] rdma_nl_rcv+0xcd/0x120 [ib_core]
  [<0>] netlink_unicast+0x179/0x220
  [<0>] netlink_sendmsg+0x2f6/0x3f0
  [<0>] sock_sendmsg+0x30/0x40
  [<0>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x27a/0x290
  [<0>] __sys_sendmsg+0x58/0xa0
  [<0>] do_syscall_64+0x5a/0x270
  [<0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

To overcome this deadlock and to allow multiple netlink messages to
progress in parallel, following scheme is implemented.

1. Split the lock protecting the cb_table into a per-index lock, and make
   it a rwlock. This lock is used to ensure no callbacks are running after
   unregistration returns. Since a module will not be registered once it
   is already running callbacks, this avoids the deadlock.

2. Use smp_store_release() to update the cb_table during registration so
   that no lock is required. This avoids lockdep problems with thinking
   all the rwsems are the same lock class.

Fixes: 0e2d00eb6fd45 ("RDMA: Add NLDEV_GET_CHARDEV to allow char dev discovery and autoload")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191015080733.18625-1-leon@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
drivers/infiniband/core/core_priv.h
drivers/infiniband/core/device.c
drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c