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author | Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> | 2011-10-28 15:42:50 +0000 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-10-30 03:13:14 -0400 |
commit | e6d265e8504ab4a3368b8645d318b344ee88b280 (patch) | |
tree | 6fd2bc16819bae491e56be2658fc3298b7efa92c /drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h | |
parent | 10ee0faed92c8af4baebd633372136a6608a41ea (diff) |
bonding: eliminate bond_close race conditions
This patch resolves two sets of race conditions.
Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com> reported the
first, as follows:
The bond_close() calls cancel_delayed_work() to cancel delayed works.
It, however, cannot cancel works that were already queued in workqueue.
The bond_open() initializes work->data, and proccess_one_work() refers
get_work_cwq(work)->wq->flags. The get_work_cwq() returns NULL when
work->data has been initialized. Thus, a panic occurs.
He included a patch that converted the cancel_delayed_work calls
in bond_close to flush_delayed_work_sync, which eliminated the above
problem.
His patch is incorporated, at least in principle, into this
patch. In this patch, we use cancel_delayed_work_sync in place of
flush_delayed_work_sync, and also convert bond_uninit in addition to
bond_close.
This conversion to _sync, however, opens new races between
bond_close and three periodically executing workqueue functions:
bond_mii_monitor, bond_alb_monitor and bond_activebackup_arp_mon.
The race occurs because bond_close and bond_uninit are always
called with RTNL held, and these workqueue functions may acquire RTNL to
perform failover-related activities. If bond_close or bond_uninit is
waiting in cancel_delayed_work_sync, deadlock occurs.
These deadlocks are resolved by having the workqueue functions
acquire RTNL conditionally. If the rtnl_trylock() fails, the functions
reschedule and return immediately. For the cases that are attempting to
perform link failover, a delay of 1 is used; for the other cases, the
normal interval is used (as those activities are not as time critical).
Additionally, the bond_mii_monitor function now stores the delay
in a variable (mimicing the structure of activebackup_arp_mon).
Lastly, all of the above renders the kill_timers sentinel moot,
and therefore it has been removed.
Tested-by: Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h b/drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h index 82fec5fc75d..1aecc37e5b4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h @@ -222,7 +222,6 @@ struct bonding { struct slave *); rwlock_t lock; rwlock_t curr_slave_lock; - s8 kill_timers; u8 send_peer_notif; s8 setup_by_slave; s8 igmp_retrans; |