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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
Cc: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	lkp@01.org, Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [rhashtable] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 10 at kernel/locking/mutex.c:570 mutex_lock_nested()
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 19:28:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150113192847.GP20387@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHA+R7M1ZSCF+FwKVtZUbsJ05zesNg-WVTqH13=oFe5gM--3gw@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/13/15 at 11:14am, Cong Wang wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> wrote:
> > I can't reproduce it in my KVM box either so far. It looks like a
> > mutex_lock() on an uninitialized mutex or use after free but I can't
> > find such a code path so far.
> 
> Couldn't that be the delayed work is still running after rhashtable
> is destroyed by its caller? I mean, cancel_delayed_work_sync()
> should be called in rhashtable_destroy()?
> 
> Of course, it may be caller's responsibility to ensure that, I haven't
> looked into it that much.

Yes, we came to the very same conclusion in a different email thread
and found the offending race condition.

      reply	other threads:[~2015-01-13 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-10 19:48 Fengguang Wu
2015-01-12  1:38 ` Fwd: " Ying Xue
2015-01-12 12:42   ` Thomas Graf
2015-01-13  7:50     ` Ying Xue
2015-01-13  8:41       ` Thomas Graf
2015-01-13 19:14         ` Cong Wang
2015-01-13 19:28           ` Thomas Graf [this message]

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