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Shalom Lagziel 9c6f42e925 IB/ipoib: Fix sysfs Pkey create<->remove possible deadlock
A possible ABBA lock can happen with RTNL and vlan_rwsem.
For example:

Flow A: Device Flush
	__ipoib_ib_dev_flush
	down_read(vlan_rwsem) 			// Lock A
	ipoib_flush_ah
	flush_workqueue(priv->wq) 		// Wait for completion
	A work on shared WQ (Mcast carrier)
		ipoib_mcast_carrier_on_task
		while (!rtnl_trylock())         // Wait for lock B

Flow B: Sysfs PKEY delete
	ipoib_vlan_delete
	lock(RTNL) 				// Lock B
	down_write(vlan_rwsem) 			// Wait for lock A

This can happen with PKEY creates as well. The solution is to release
the RTNL lock in sysfs functions in case it is not possible to lock
VLAN RW semaphore and reset the SYS call.

Fixes: 69956d8326 ("IB/ipoib: Sync between remove_one to sysfs calls that use rtnl_lock")
Signed-off-by: Shalom Lagziel <shaloml@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Vesker <valex@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
2017-09-25 11:47:23 -04:00
arch Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-09-24 12:33:58 -07:00
block block: directly insert blk-mq request from blk_insert_cloned_request() 2017-09-11 16:43:57 -06:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: af_alg - update correct dst SGL entry 2017-09-20 17:42:42 +08:00
Documentation DeviceTree fixes for 4.14: 2017-09-24 16:04:12 -07:00
drivers IB/ipoib: Fix sysfs Pkey create<->remove possible deadlock 2017-09-25 11:47:23 -04:00
firmware firmware: Restore support for built-in firmware 2017-09-16 10:58:48 -07:00
fs Various SMB3 fixes for stable and security improvements from the recently completed SMB3/Samba test events 2017-09-22 16:11:48 -10:00
include IB: Correct MR length field to be 64-bit 2017-09-25 11:47:23 -04:00
init Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 18:54:01 -07:00
ipc ipc/shm: Fix order of parameters when calling copy_compat_shmid_to_user 2017-09-20 23:27:48 -04:00
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sound vfs: constify path argument to kernel_read_file_from_path 2017-09-14 20:18:45 -07:00
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usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.