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Commit 3848e96e authored by NeilBrown's avatar NeilBrown Committed by Trond Myklebust
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SUNRPC: avoid race between mod_timer() and del_timer_sync()



xprt_destory() claims XPRT_LOCKED and then calls del_timer_sync().
Both xprt_unlock_connect() and xprt_release() call
 ->release_xprt()
which drops XPRT_LOCKED and *then* xprt_schedule_autodisconnect()
which calls mod_timer().

This may result in mod_timer() being called *after* del_timer_sync().
When this happens, the timer may fire long after the xprt has been freed,
and run_timer_softirq() will probably crash.

The pairing of ->release_xprt() and xprt_schedule_autodisconnect() is
always called under ->transport_lock.  So if we take ->transport_lock to
call del_timer_sync(), we can be sure that mod_timer() will run first
(if it runs at all).

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
parent a245832a
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