linux/drivers/net/team
Taehee Yoo 1c30fbc76b team: fix hang in team_mode_get()
When team mode is changed or set, the team_mode_get() is called to check
whether the mode module is inserted or not. If the mode module is not
inserted, it calls the request_module().
In the request_module(), it creates a child process, which is
the "modprobe" process and waits for the done of the child process.
At this point, the following locks were used.
down_read(&cb_lock()); by genl_rcv()
    genl_lock(); by genl_rcv_msc()
        rtnl_lock(); by team_nl_cmd_options_set()
            mutex_lock(&team->lock); by team_nl_team_get()

Concurrently, the team module could be removed by rmmod or "modprobe -r"
The __exit function of team module is team_module_exit(), which calls
team_nl_fini() and it tries to acquire following locks.
down_write(&cb_lock);
    genl_lock();
Because of the genl_lock() and cb_lock, this process can't be finished
earlier than request_module() routine.

The problem secenario.
CPU0                                     CPU1
team_mode_get
    request_module()
                                         modprobe -r team_mode_roundrobin
                                                     team <--(B)
        modprobe team <--(A)
            team_mode_roundrobin

By request_module(), the "modprobe team_mode_roundrobin" command
will be executed. At this point, the modprobe process will decide
that the team module should be inserted before team_mode_roundrobin.
Because the team module is being removed.

By the module infrastructure, the same module insert/remove operations
can't be executed concurrently.
So, (A) waits for (B) but (B) also waits for (A) because of locks.
So that the hang occurs at this point.

Test commands:
    while :
    do
        teamd -d &
	killall teamd &
	modprobe -rv team_mode_roundrobin &
    done

The approach of this patch is to hold the reference count of the team
module if the team module is compiled as a module. If the reference count
of the team module is not zero while request_module() is being called,
the team module will not be removed at that moment.
So that the above scenario could not occur.

Fixes: 3d249d4ca7 ("net: introduce ethernet teaming device")
Signed-off-by: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-04-20 13:03:44 -07:00
..
Kconfig treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
Makefile License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
team_mode_activebackup.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
team_mode_broadcast.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
team_mode_loadbalance.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
team_mode_random.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
team_mode_roundrobin.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
team.c team: fix hang in team_mode_get() 2020-04-20 13:03:44 -07:00