Re: [PATCH] net: hinic: avoid kernel hung in hinic_get_stats64()

[maqiao <mqaio@linux.alibaba.com>]

在 2022/6/30 下午5:56, Paolo Abeni 写道:
> On Wed, 2022-06-29 at 15:28 +0800, Qiao Ma wrote:
>> When using hinic device as a bond slave device, and reading device stats of
>> master bond device, the kernel may hung.
>>
>> The kernel panic calltrace as follows:
>> Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks
>> Call trace:
>>    native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x1ec/0x31c
>>    dev_get_stats+0x60/0xcc
>>    dev_seq_printf_stats+0x40/0x120
>>    dev_seq_show+0x1c/0x40
>>    seq_read_iter+0x3c8/0x4dc
>>    seq_read+0xe0/0x130
>>    proc_reg_read+0xa8/0xe0
>>    vfs_read+0xb0/0x1d4
>>    ksys_read+0x70/0xfc
>>    __arm64_sys_read+0x20/0x30
>>    el0_svc_common+0x88/0x234
>>    do_el0_svc+0x2c/0x90
>>    el0_svc+0x1c/0x30
>>    el0_sync_handler+0xa8/0xb0
>>    el0_sync+0x148/0x180
>>
>> And the calltrace of task that actually caused kernel hungs as follows:
>>    __switch_to+124
>>    __schedule+548
>>    schedule+72
>>    schedule_timeout+348
>>    __down_common+188
>>    __down+24
>>    down+104
>>    hinic_get_stats64+44 [hinic]
>>    dev_get_stats+92
>>    bond_get_stats+172 [bonding]
>>    dev_get_stats+92
>>    dev_seq_printf_stats+60
>>    dev_seq_show+24
>>    seq_read_iter+964
>>    seq_read+220
>>    proc_reg_read+164
>>    vfs_read+172
>>    ksys_read+108
>>    __arm64_sys_read+28
>>    el0_svc_common+132
>>    do_el0_svc+40
>>    el0_svc+24
>>    el0_sync_handler+164
>>    el0_sync+324
>>
>> When getting device stats from bond, kernel will call bond_get_stats().
>> It first holds the spinlock bond->stats_lock, and then call
>> hinic_get_stats64() to collect hinic device's stats.
>> However, hinic_get_stats64() calls `down(&nic_dev->mgmt_lock)` to
>> protect its critical section, which may schedule current task out.
>> And if system is under high pressure, the task cannot be woken up
>> immediately, which eventually triggers kernel hung panic.
>>
>> Fixes: edd384f682cc ("net-next/hinic: Add ethtool and stats")
>> Signed-off-by: Qiao Ma <mqaio@linux.alibaba.com>
> 
> Side note: it looks like that after this patch every section protected
> by the mgmt_lock is already under rtnl lock protection, so you could
> probably remove the hinic specific lock (in a separate, net-next,
> patch).
> 
> Please double check the above as I skimmed upon that quickly.
Thank you, I need to carefully check each section will only be called 
through netlink dev_get_stats().

And I forgot to add prefix "net-next" in patch's title, forgive me...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paolo