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authorParav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>2020-10-26 15:43:59 +0200
committerJason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>2020-10-26 19:18:19 -0300
commitfbdd0049d98d44914fc57d4b91f867f4996c787b (patch)
treeec7b77d3cfd8055fdef93031a3185171c2fe08cd /drivers
parentedebc8407b8891ec0ea9ca4089f3d3343a5e50dd (diff)
downloadlinux-fbdd0049d98d44914fc57d4b91f867f4996c787b.tar.gz
RDMA/mlx5: Fix devlink deadlock on net namespace deletion
When a mlx5 core devlink instance is reloaded in different net namespace,
its associated IB device is deleted and recreated.

Example sequence is:
$ ip netns add foo
$ devlink dev reload pci/0000:00:08.0 netns foo
$ ip netns del foo

mlx5 IB device needs to attach and detach the netdevice to it through the
netdev notifier chain during load and unload sequence.  A below call graph
of the unload flow.

cleanup_net()
   down_read(&pernet_ops_rwsem); <- first sem acquired
     ops_pre_exit_list()
       pre_exit()
         devlink_pernet_pre_exit()
           devlink_reload()
             mlx5_devlink_reload_down()
               mlx5_unload_one()
               [...]
                 mlx5_ib_remove()
                   mlx5_ib_unbind_slave_port()
                     mlx5_remove_netdev_notifier()
                       unregister_netdevice_notifier()
                         down_write(&pernet_ops_rwsem);<- recurrsive lock

Hence, when net namespace is deleted, mlx5 reload results in deadlock.

When deadlock occurs, devlink mutex is also held. This not only deadlocks
the mlx5 device under reload, but all the processes which attempt to
access unrelated devlink devices are deadlocked.

Hence, fix this by mlx5 ib driver to register for per net netdev notifier
instead of global one, which operats on the net namespace without holding
the pernet_ops_rwsem.

Fixes: 4383cfcc65e7 ("net/mlx5: Add devlink reload")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201026134359.23150-1-parav@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c6
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/mlx5.h5
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
index 89e04ca62ae0..246e3cbe0b2c 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c
@@ -3305,7 +3305,8 @@ static int mlx5_add_netdev_notifier(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev, u8 port_num)
 	int err;
 
 	dev->port[port_num].roce.nb.notifier_call = mlx5_netdev_event;
-	err = register_netdevice_notifier(&dev->port[port_num].roce.nb);
+	err = register_netdevice_notifier_net(mlx5_core_net(dev->mdev),
+					      &dev->port[port_num].roce.nb);
 	if (err) {
 		dev->port[port_num].roce.nb.notifier_call = NULL;
 		return err;
@@ -3317,7 +3318,8 @@ static int mlx5_add_netdev_notifier(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev, u8 port_num)
 static void mlx5_remove_netdev_notifier(struct mlx5_ib_dev *dev, u8 port_num)
 {
 	if (dev->port[port_num].roce.nb.notifier_call) {
-		unregister_netdevice_notifier(&dev->port[port_num].roce.nb);
+		unregister_netdevice_notifier_net(mlx5_core_net(dev->mdev),
+						  &dev->port[port_num].roce.nb);
 		dev->port[port_num].roce.nb.notifier_call = NULL;
 	}
 }
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/mlx5.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/mlx5.h
index d046db7bb047..3a9fa629503f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/mlx5.h
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lib/mlx5.h
@@ -90,9 +90,4 @@ int mlx5_create_encryption_key(struct mlx5_core_dev *mdev,
 			       u32 key_type, u32 *p_key_id);
 void mlx5_destroy_encryption_key(struct mlx5_core_dev *mdev, u32 key_id);
 
-static inline struct net *mlx5_core_net(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev)
-{
-	return devlink_net(priv_to_devlink(dev));
-}
-
 #endif