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SubjectRe: [PATCH] usbnet: Fix a race between usbnet_stop() and the BH
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01.09.2015 17:05, Eugene Shatokhin пишет:
> The race may happen when a device (e.g. YOTA 4G LTE Modem) is
> unplugged while the system is downloading a large file from the Net.
>
> Hardware breakpoints and Kprobes with delays were used to confirm that
> the race does actually happen.
>
> The race is on skb_queue ('next' pointer) between usbnet_stop()
> and rx_complete(), which, in turn, calls usbnet_bh().
>
> Here is a part of the call stack with the code where the changes to the
> queue happen. The line numbers are for the kernel 4.1.0:
>
> *0 __skb_unlink (skbuff.h:1517)
> prev->next = next;
> *1 defer_bh (usbnet.c:430)
> spin_lock_irqsave(&list->lock, flags);
> old_state = entry->state;
> entry->state = state;
> __skb_unlink(skb, list);
> spin_unlock(&list->lock);
> spin_lock(&dev->done.lock);
> __skb_queue_tail(&dev->done, skb);
> if (dev->done.qlen == 1)
> tasklet_schedule(&dev->bh);
> spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->done.lock, flags);
> *2 rx_complete (usbnet.c:640)
> state = defer_bh(dev, skb, &dev->rxq, state);
>
> At the same time, the following code repeatedly checks if the queue is
> empty and reads these values concurrently with the above changes:
>
> *0 usbnet_terminate_urbs (usbnet.c:765)
> /* maybe wait for deletions to finish. */
> while (!skb_queue_empty(&dev->rxq)
> && !skb_queue_empty(&dev->txq)
> && !skb_queue_empty(&dev->done)) {
> schedule_timeout(msecs_to_jiffies(UNLINK_TIMEOUT_MS));
> set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> netif_dbg(dev, ifdown, dev->net,
> "waited for %d urb completions\n", temp);
> }
> *1 usbnet_stop (usbnet.c:806)
> if (!(info->flags & FLAG_AVOID_UNLINK_URBS))
> usbnet_terminate_urbs(dev);
>
> As a result, it is possible, for example, that the skb is removed from
> dev->rxq by __skb_unlink() before the check
> "!skb_queue_empty(&dev->rxq)" in usbnet_terminate_urbs() is made. It is
> also possible in this case that the skb is added to dev->done queue
> after "!skb_queue_empty(&dev->done)" is checked. So
> usbnet_terminate_urbs() may stop waiting and return while dev->done
> queue still has an item.
>
> Locking in defer_bh() and usbnet_terminate_urbs() was revisited to avoid
> this race.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eugene Shatokhin <eugene.shatokhin@rosalab.ru>
> ---
> drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
> index e049857..b4cf107 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
> @@ -428,12 +428,18 @@ static enum skb_state defer_bh(struct usbnet *dev, struct sk_buff *skb,
> old_state = entry->state;
> entry->state = state;
> __skb_unlink(skb, list);
> - spin_unlock(&list->lock);
> - spin_lock(&dev->done.lock);
> +
> + /* defer_bh() is never called with list == &dev->done.
> + * spin_lock_nested() tells lockdep that it is OK to take
> + * dev->done.lock here with list->lock held.
> + */
> + spin_lock_nested(&dev->done.lock, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING);
> +
> __skb_queue_tail(&dev->done, skb);
> if (dev->done.qlen == 1)
> tasklet_schedule(&dev->bh);
> - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->done.lock, flags);
> + spin_unlock(&dev->done.lock);
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&list->lock, flags);
> return old_state;
> }
>
> @@ -749,6 +755,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usbnet_unlink_rx_urbs);
>
> /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
>
> +static void wait_skb_queue_empty(struct sk_buff_head *q)
> +{
> + unsigned long flags;
> +
> + spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags);
> + while (!skb_queue_empty(q)) {
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags);
> + schedule_timeout(msecs_to_jiffies(UNLINK_TIMEOUT_MS));
> + set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> + spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags);
> + }
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags);
> +}
> +
> // precondition: never called in_interrupt
> static void usbnet_terminate_urbs(struct usbnet *dev)
> {
> @@ -762,14 +782,11 @@ static void usbnet_terminate_urbs(struct usbnet *dev)
> unlink_urbs(dev, &dev->rxq);
>
> /* maybe wait for deletions to finish. */
> - while (!skb_queue_empty(&dev->rxq)
> - && !skb_queue_empty(&dev->txq)
> - && !skb_queue_empty(&dev->done)) {
> - schedule_timeout(msecs_to_jiffies(UNLINK_TIMEOUT_MS));
> - set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> - netif_dbg(dev, ifdown, dev->net,
> - "waited for %d urb completions\n", temp);
> - }
> + wait_skb_queue_empty(&dev->rxq);
> + wait_skb_queue_empty(&dev->txq);
> + wait_skb_queue_empty(&dev->done);
> + netif_dbg(dev, ifdown, dev->net,
> + "waited for %d urb completions\n", temp);
> set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
> remove_wait_queue(&dev->wait, &wait);
> }
>

I resent the patch to make it separate. What is the status of this now?

Regards,
Eugene


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