This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

IB/ipoib: Grab rtnl lock on heavy flush when calling ndo_open/stop

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: ib-ipoib-grab-rtnl-lock-on-heavy-flush-when-calling-ndo_open-stop.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From foo@baz Mon Dec 18 14:47:43 CET 2017

From: Alex Vesker valex@mellanox.com Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 10:36:41 +0300 Subject: IB/ipoib: Grab rtnl lock on heavy flush when calling ndo_open/stop

From: Alex Vesker valex@mellanox.com

[ Upstream commit b4b678b06f6eef18bff44a338c01870234db0bc9 ]

When ndo_open and ndo_stop are called RTNL lock should be held. In this specific case ipoib_ib_dev_open calls the offloaded ndo_open which re-sets the number of TX queue assuming RTNL lock is held. Since RTNL lock is not held, RTNL assert will fail.

Signed-off-by: Alex Vesker valex@mellanox.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@verizon.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_ib.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_ib.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_ib.c @@ -1044,10 +1044,15 @@ static void __ipoib_ib_dev_flush(struct ipoib_ib_dev_down(dev);

if (level == IPOIB_FLUSH_HEAVY) { + rtnl_lock(); if (test_bit(IPOIB_FLAG_INITIALIZED, &priv->flags)) ipoib_ib_dev_stop(dev); - if (ipoib_ib_dev_open(dev) != 0) + + result = ipoib_ib_dev_open(dev); + rtnl_unlock(); + if (result) return; + if (netif_queue_stopped(dev)) netif_start_queue(dev); }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from valex@mellanox.com are

queue-4.4/ib-ipoib-grab-rtnl-lock-on-heavy-flush-when-calling-ndo_open-stop.patch