[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.2 15/76] ixgbe: fix possible deadlock in ixgbe_service_task()
From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Date: 2019-08-29 18:33:37
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lkml, stable
Subsystem:
intel ethernet drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Tony Nguyen, Przemek Kitszel, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
From: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
[ Upstream commit 8b6381600d59871fbe44d36522272f961ab42410 ]
ixgbe_service_task() calls unregister_netdev() under rtnl_lock().
But unregister_netdev() internally calls rtnl_lock().
So deadlock would occur.
Fixes: 59dd45d550c5 ("ixgbe: firmware recovery mode")
Signed-off-by: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <redacted>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 5 +----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index 57fd9ee6de665..f7c049559c1a5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c@@ -7893,11 +7893,8 @@ static void ixgbe_service_task(struct work_struct *work) return; } if (ixgbe_check_fw_error(adapter)) { - if (!test_bit(__IXGBE_DOWN, &adapter->state)) { - rtnl_lock(); + if (!test_bit(__IXGBE_DOWN, &adapter->state)) unregister_netdev(adapter->netdev); - rtnl_unlock(); - } ixgbe_service_event_complete(adapter); return; }
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2.20.1