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Commit 1d49eb91 authored by Ioanna Alifieraki's avatar Ioanna Alifieraki Committed by Corey Minyard
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ipmi: Move remove_work to dedicated workqueue

Currently when removing an ipmi_user the removal is deferred as a work on
the system's workqueue. Although this guarantees the free operation will
occur in non atomic context, it can race with the ipmi_msghandler module
removal (see [1]) . In case a remove_user work is scheduled for removal
and shortly after ipmi_msghandler module is removed we can end up in a
situation where the module is removed fist and when the work is executed
the system crashes with :
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffc05c3450
PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode
PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page
because the pages of the module are gone. In cleanup_ipmi() there is no
easy way to detect if there are any pending works to flush them before
removing the module. This patch creates a separate workqueue and schedules
the remove_work works on it. When removing the module the workqueue is
drained when destroyed to avoid the race.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1950666



Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.1
Fixes: 3b9a9072 (ipmi: fix sleep-in-atomic in free_user at cleanup SRCU user->release_barrier)
Signed-off-by: default avatarIoanna Alifieraki <ioanna-maria.alifieraki@canonical.com>
Message-Id: <20211115131645.25116-1-ioanna-maria.alifieraki@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCorey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
parent 5833291a
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