On Sat, May 17, 2025 at 08:47:50PM -0700, Saurabh Sengar wrote:
The MANA driver's probe registers netdevice via the following call chain:
mana_probe() register_netdev() register_netdevice()
register_netdevice() calls notifier callback for netvsc driver, holding the netdev mutex via netdev_lock_ops().
Further this netvsc notifier callback end up attempting to acquire the same lock again in dev_xdp_propagate() leading to deadlock.
netvsc_netdev_event() netvsc_vf_setxdp() dev_xdp_propagate()
This deadlock was not observed so far because net_shaper_ops was never set and this lock in noop in this case. Fix this by using netif_xdp_propagate instead of dev_xdp_propagate to avoid recursive locking in this path.
This issue has not observed so far because net_shaper_ops was unset, making the lock path effectively a no-op. To prevent recursive locking and avoid this deadlock, replace dev_xdp_propagate() with netif_xdp_propagate(), which does not acquire the lock again.
Also, clean up the unregistration path by removing unnecessary call to netvsc_vf_setxdp(), since unregister_netdevice_many_notify() already performs this cleanup via dev_xdp_uninstall.
Fixes: 97246d6d21c2 ("net: hold netdev instance lock during ndo_bpf") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Saurabh Sengar ssengar@linux.microsoft.com
Built and booted successfully.
Tested-by: Erni Sri Satya Vennela ernis@linux.microsoft.com
Thanks!