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Commit 9dc3abdd authored by Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan's avatar Parthasarathy Bhuvaragan Committed by David S. Miller
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tipc: fix nametbl_lock soft lockup at module exit



Commit 333f7962 ("tipc: fix a race condition leading to
subscriber refcnt bug") reveals a soft lockup while acquiring
nametbl_lock.

Before commit 333f7962, we call tipc_conn_shutdown() from
tipc_close_conn() in the context of tipc_topsrv_stop(). In that
context, we are allowed to grab the nametbl_lock.

Commit 333f7962, moved tipc_conn_release (renamed from
tipc_conn_shutdown) to the connection refcount cleanup. This allows
either tipc_nametbl_withdraw() or tipc_topsrv_stop() to the cleanup.

Since tipc_exit_net() first calls tipc_topsrv_stop() and then
tipc_nametble_withdraw() increases the chances for the later to
perform the connection cleanup.

The soft lockup occurs in the call chain of tipc_nametbl_withdraw(),
when it performs the tipc_conn_kref_release() as it tries to grab
nametbl_lock again while holding it already.
tipc_nametbl_withdraw() grabs nametbl_lock
  tipc_nametbl_remove_publ()
    tipc_subscrp_report_overlap()
      tipc_subscrp_send_event()
        tipc_conn_sendmsg()
          << if (con->flags != CF_CONNECTED) we do conn_put(),
             triggering the cleanup as refcount=0. >>
          tipc_conn_kref_release
            tipc_sock_release
              tipc_conn_release
                tipc_subscrb_delete
                  tipc_subscrp_delete
                    tipc_nametbl_unsubscribe << Soft Lockup >>

The previous changes in this series fixes the race conditions fixed
by commit 333f7962. Hence we can now revert the commit.

Fixes: 333f7962 ("tipc: fix a race condition leading to subscriber refcnt bug")
Reported-and-Tested-by: default avatarJohn Thompson <thompa.atl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJon Maloy <jon.maloy@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarParthasarathy Bhuvaragan <parthasarathy.bhuvaragan@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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