ipmi: move message error checking to avoid deadlock
V1->V2: in handle_one_rcv_msg, if data_size > 2, set requeue to zero and goto out instead of calling ipmi_free_msg. Kosuke Tatsukawa <tatsu@ab.jp.nec.com> In the source stack trace below, function set_need_watch tries to take out the same si_lock that was taken earlier by ipmi_thread. ipmi_thread() [drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:995] smi_event_handler() [drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:765] handle_transaction_done() [drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:555] deliver_recv_msg() [drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:283] ipmi_smi_msg_received() [drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c:4503] intf_err_seq() [drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c:1149] smi_remove_watch() [drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c:999] set_need_watch() [drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:1066] Upstream commit e1891cff adds code to ipmi_smi_msg_received() to call smi_remove_watch() via intf_err_seq() and this seems to be causing the deadlock. commit e1891cff Author: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Date: Wed Oct 24 15:17:04 2018 -0500 ipmi: Make the smi watcher be disabled immediately when not needed The fix is to put all messages in the queue and move the message checking code out of ipmi_smi_msg_received and into handle_one_recv_msg, which processes the message checking after ipmi_thread releases its locks. Additionally,Kosuke Tatsukawa <tatsu@ab.jp.nec.com> reported that handle_new_recv_msgs calls ipmi_free_msg when handle_one_rcv_msg returns zero, so that the call to ipmi_free_msg in handle_one_rcv_msg introduced another panic when "ipmitool sensor list" was run in a loop. He submitted this part of the patch. +free_msg: + requeue = 0; + goto out; Reported by: Osamu Samukawa <osa-samukawa@tg.jp.nec.com> Characterized by: Kosuke Tatsukawa <tatsu@ab.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Camuso <tcamuso@redhat.com> Fixes: e1891cff ("ipmi: Make the smi watcher be disabled immediately when not needed") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.1 Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
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