From: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org
[ Upstream commit 275b471e3d2daf1472ae8fa70dc1b50c9e0b9e75 ]
Commit 0db3dc73f7a3 ("[NETPOLL]: tx lock deadlock fix") narrowed down the region under netif_tx_trylock() inside netpoll_send_skb(). (At that point in time netif_tx_trylock() would lock all queues of the device.) Taking the tx lock was problematic because driver's cleanup method may take the same lock. So the change made us hold the xmit lock only around xmit, and expected the driver to take care of locking within ->ndo_poll_controller().
Unfortunately this only works if netpoll isn't itself called with the xmit lock already held. Netpoll code is careful and uses trylock(). The drivers, however, may be using plain lock(). Printing while holding the xmit lock is going to result in rare deadlocks.
Luckily we record the xmit lock owners, so we can scan all the queues, the same way we scan NAPI owners. If any of the xmit locks is held by the local CPU we better not attempt any polling.
It would be nice if we could narrow down the check to only the NAPIs and the queue we're trying to use. I don't see a way to do that now.
Reported-by: Roman Gushchin roman.gushchin@linux.dev Fixes: 0db3dc73f7a3 ("[NETPOLL]: tx lock deadlock fix") Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski kuba@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- net/core/netpoll.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/core/netpoll.c b/net/core/netpoll.c index 41e32a958d08d..08f0da9e6a809 100644 --- a/net/core/netpoll.c +++ b/net/core/netpoll.c @@ -136,6 +136,20 @@ static void queue_process(struct work_struct *work) } }
+static int netif_local_xmit_active(struct net_device *dev) +{ + int i; + + for (i = 0; i < dev->num_tx_queues; i++) { + struct netdev_queue *txq = netdev_get_tx_queue(dev, i); + + if (READ_ONCE(txq->xmit_lock_owner) == smp_processor_id()) + return 1; + } + + return 0; +} + static void poll_one_napi(struct napi_struct *napi) { int work; @@ -182,7 +196,10 @@ void netpoll_poll_dev(struct net_device *dev) if (!ni || down_trylock(&ni->dev_lock)) return;
- if (!netif_running(dev)) { + /* Some drivers will take the same locks in poll and xmit, + * we can't poll if local CPU is already in xmit. + */ + if (!netif_running(dev) || netif_local_xmit_active(dev)) { up(&ni->dev_lock); return; }